SHAUN MCKENNA
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Plays by Shaun McKenna
Fever |
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: (written 1997, revised 2004) under option for production in 2006 | ||||
Synopsis: Another take on Zola's THERESE RAQUIN, set in Brighton in the mid 1950s. In this version, however, it is the lover rather than the husband who dies - and Susan sets out to take a terrible revenge on her domineering, stroke-afflicted mother in law. A dark and bitter tale of love, lust and power. | ||||
Heidi |
| 1st Produced: | Wallensee | 2005 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 13 |
| Parts Other: | ensemble | |||
Notes: From the novel by Johanna Spyri. Book & Lyrics by Shaun McKenna. Music by Stephen Keeling. German translation by Anya Hauptmann | ||||
Synopsis: The famous tale of the little Swiss girl who is transported from the Alps to Frankfurt and heals a broken family by her good nature and belief in the power of belief. The tale is framed by the story of its author, Johanna Spyri, whose loveless marriage and dying only son provoke her into healing her own life by writing Heidi's story. | ||||
How Green Was My Valley |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Theatre, Northampton | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Richard Llewellyn | ||||
Synopsis: Richard Llewellyn's classic saga of growing up in a Welsh mining community at the turn of the 20th century. Huw Morgan grows from child to young adult as his family strive to fight for their community and his sister falls in love with the local minister | ||||
Killing Camille |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Inspired by a novel by Emile Zola | ||||
Synopsis: An adaptation of Zola's THERESE RAQUIN, set in 1880s Paris. When stuffy Camille brings dashing Laurent into their shop, frustrated Therese begins a passionate affair which soon leads to murder, guilt and recrimination. | ||||
Lautrec |
| 1st Produced: | Shaftesbury Theatre, London | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 |
| Parts Other: | ensemble | |||
Notes: Book by Shaun McKenna, Music & Lyrics by Charles Aznavour, English lyrics by Dee Shipman | ||||
Synopsis: The deformed midget, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, a scion of one of the most dysfunctional aristocratic families, causes scandal by his behaviour and his art. A model, Suzanne Valadon, sees beyond his appearance but their liaison causes trouble with the family - and Lautrec's own compulsive, addictive behaviour drives her away. He descends into alcoholism and madness before she engineers resolution with his family and goes on to have a career as a painter in her own right. | ||||
Lord Of The Rings, The |
| 1st Produced: | Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | ensemble | |||
Notes: From the novels by JRR Tolkien. Book & Lyrics by Shaun McKenna & Matthew Warchus. Music by AR Rahman, Varttina & Christopher Nightingale | ||||
Synopsis: The One Ring, now in the possession of Shire hobbit Frodo Baggins, has potentially desperate consequences for the world. His quest to destroy it leads to the salvation of Middle Earth but at enormous cost to himself. Radical and ground-breaking stage adaptation of Tolkien's epic trilogy. Not a musical in the traditional sense, more a piece of epic theatre with music, extraordinary physical theatre and spectacle. | ||||
Maddie |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Warner Chappell | - | ||
London cast recording: Dress Circle (CD 003) | 1997 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Romantic musical comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | ensemble | |||
Notes: Book by Shaun McKenna & Steven Dexter, Lyrics by Shaun McKenna, Music by Stephen Keeling. Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave 1997 | ||||
Synopsis: When Nick and Jan Cheyney move into a new San Francisco apartment, they discover a message written in lipstick beneath layers of peeling wallpaper. The writer, Maddie Marsh, was a wannabe silent movie star who died just as her career was taking off. Maddie possesses the drab Jan, determined to have another crack at fame, and Nick falls in love with Maddie in his wife's body, causing all manner of mayhem. | ||||
Perpetual Curate, The |
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Based on characters created by Anthony Trollope. (written 2000). Written by Shaun McKenna and Michael Rudman | ||||
Synopsis: Adapted from the last two Barchester novels, this is the tale of a poor middle-aged curate whose only capital is his reputation and sense of honour. When he is accused of stealing a £20 cheque, his life collapses around him and his inability to bend becomes both his greatest strength and most devastating weakness. The vengeful Bishop's wife, Mrs Proudie, is an initially comic figure who becomes a terrifying enemy. | ||||
Ruling Passions |
| 1st Produced: | Royal, Northampton | 1995 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | boys | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Based on a nineteenth century murder scandal. Henriette Deluzy comes as governess to the home of the Duc de Praslin and his hysterically jealous wife, who believes the pair are having an affair. All is not what it seems, however, and once the Duchesse is murdered, Chancellor Pasquier, must 'spin' the resulting scandal to prevent the downfall of a teetering monarchy. | ||||
To Serve Them All My Days |
| 1st Produced: | Royal Theatre, Northampton | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | boys | |||
Notes: Adapted from the novel by R.F. Delderfield | ||||
Synopsis: Adaptation of the celebrated between-the-wars novel about Davy Powlett Jones, invalided out of the army in 1917 and finding a new role as a teacher in a minor public school in Devon. A tale of striving to belong, of human nature, tragedy, comedy and desperate rivalry as a new headmaster threatens to wreck all that Davy holds dear. | ||||