RON NICOL
| Nationality: | Scottish |
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Plays by Ron Nicol
Accident Of Circumstance |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | + 6m/f variable | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: John suspects that people are plotting against him. His GP diagnoses him as schizophrenic. John is a highly intelligent man; he analyses his illness and the treatment he's enduring, and knows there's nothing wrong with him. His encounters in hospital with the doctor who seems baffled by his illness become increasingly fraught. His relationship with his wife Ellen disintegrates, and their marriage breaks down. His turbulent and increasingly difficult life ends in his death, and a release from his pain. A drama based on actual events, and told in 'John and Ellen's own words. | ||||
Assipattle And The Stoorworm |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Pedersen Press, Glasgow. (Now published by Spotlight Publications. ISBN 1 904930 46 8) | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Scottish Folk Tale | One Act | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A ferocious sea-monster, the Stoorworm, threatens the kingdom and evil Queen Beitris and Murdo the Sorcerer plot to have Princess Gemdelovely sacrificed to the creature to the dismay of ancient King Magnus. To everybody's amazement, timid farmer's son Assipattle rescues the princess. | ||||
Beggar Your Neighbour |
| 1st Produced: | Stirling, Scotland | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Thornhill Players | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Mrs Freebody has copied every detail of Mrs Lightfoot's living room - or has she? Then, Mrs Lightfoot reports the disappearance of her husband and twelve children. Mrs Freebody is responsible - or is she? Police officers Boulter and Cadbury investigate, and are about to make an arrest for kidnapping, body snatching and mass murder when the truth is revealed. | ||||
Bird in the Bush, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications ISBN 1 904930 81 6 | 2006 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Its a hot summers night and Bernards stomach ache and his abiding hatred of a cooing pigeon combine to keep his whole family awake. When he determines to track the pigeon to its lair, his daughters fiancée and his next door neighbour become entangled in his fixation. Eventually the police are called and Bernard has to face the consequences. | ||||
Chairs |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Mike, an enthusiastic young lecturer, is determined to foster better communication among the college staff. He enlists the help of his colleague Kath to re-arrange the chairs in the staff-room, hoping it will encourage the staff to talk to each other. Meanwhile, long-serving lecturer Douglas and newly-appointed Neil become involved in a feud about where each should sit. Moving the chairs has unforeseen consequences; feelings are hurt and tempers rise, Kath gives up her job, and Douglas has a break-down. For some people, insignificant things have an importance which others don't always appreciate. | ||||
Christmas Carol, A |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 1992 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: from Novel by Charles Dickens | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Dracula for Beginners |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 1993 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | +m/f2 | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania, and meets the Count and several other strange occupants of Castle Dracula. He returns to England a changed man, and marries Mina Murray. Then Mina's friend Lucy Westenra mysteriously becomes ill, and Doctor Van Helsing, a specialist in obscure diseases, is sent for. Meanwhile, Count Dracula has arrived in England. Van Helsing suspects him of being the cause of Lucy's illness and hands out crosses and garlic for protection. With vampirism eventually affecting almost everybody, a novel and little-known cure that won't frighten the children is tried out, and after much confusion Dracula is defeated. Cast 4m 6f with doubling | ||||
Edge, The |
| 1st Produced: | Barrfields Theatre, Largs | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Abbey Youth Drama Club | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Youth winner Scottish Community Drama Association Play on Words 2006 | ||||
Synopsis: A young man is on the roof of a high building, contemplating throwing himself over the edge. A young woman finds him there and initiates a conversation, but her readiness to slip into fantasies sounds a warning note. The young man leaves the roof, apparently having come to terms with his difficulties - but the girl is fixated with death, and finally does what she'd planned to do all along. | ||||
Friends And Neighbours |
| 1st Produced: | Livingston, Scotland | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Queen Victoria School, Dunblane | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications. ISBN 1 904930 47 6 | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | Youth Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | Non-speaking extras | |||
Notes: Award winner: Scottish Community Drama Association Play on Words 2004 | ||||
Synopsis: Fraser is the ultimate bully, leading his teenage gang in racist attacks and hounding anyone who dares to stand up to him. Rab, a more moderate member of the gang, meets Delia, and English girl who encourages him to challenger Fraser's racist views. The gang are forced to examine their own beliefs when Fraser stabs an immigrant. | ||||
Going Home |
| 1st Produced: | Village Theatre, East Kilbride, Scotland | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Kirkintilloch Players | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications. ISBN 1 84094 473 0 | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Award Winner 2002 Scottish Community Drama Association Play on Words | ||||
Synopsis: Mr Macintosh just wants to go home, but then his department head demands he consider early retirement, a colleague asks him to alter exam results, he misunderstands the motives of one of his students, and is assaulted in his classroom with disastrous results | ||||
Guleesh |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Pedersen Press, Glasgow. (Now published by Spotlight Publications. ISBN 1 904930 48 4) | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Irish Folk Tale | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 2 m/f | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Guleesh goes with the Fairy Folk to steal the King of France's daughter, but falls in love with the princess and rescues her from the kidnappers. The furious Fairy King plans his revenge. | ||||
Man Who Collected Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: An adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Illustrious Client" When the unscrupulous Baron Gruner persuades impressionable heiress Violet de Merville to marry him, Sir James Damery approaches Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Doctor Watson for help. With the assistance of underworld contact Shinwell Johnson, and the Baron's discarded mistress Kitty Winter, Holmes comes up trumps. Despite being assaulted and left for dead, he steals Gruner's diary of conquests and prevents the Baron adding to his collection of betrayed women, while Kitty takes her own drastic revenge. | ||||
Mazarin Stone |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: An adaptation of 'The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'. Master criminal Count Negretto Sylvius steals a fabulous Crown diamond - the Mazarin stone - and Sherlock Holmes determines to get it back, despite the Count's threat to murder him. Sylvius confronts the great detective in his consulting rooms at Baker Street, but is tricked by the use of a dummy into revealing the whereabouts of the precious jewel. | ||||
Molly Whuppie And The Double-Faced Ogre |
| 1st Produced: | East Kilbride, Scotland | 2002 | ||
| Company: | St Michael's Players | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications. ISBN 1 904930 45 X | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | Youth Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1 m/f | |||
Notes: Award winner: Scottish Community Drama Association Play on Words 2002 | ||||
Synopsis: When Prince Wilfrid falls in love with bold and clever Molly Whuppie, King Walter challengers her to steal the Ogre's sword, purse and ring. Though hampered by the hapless Prince, Molly undertakes the task. | ||||
Murder At The Cathedral |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Henry King is furious that his Cathedral Players haven't won anything at any drama festival since the defection of leading actor Tom Becket to the rival Priest's Gate Drama Club three years ago. Sally and Toby decide to do something about it, and Tom Beckett disappears. Did Knight and Barron bump off the Priest? Did Polly poison the coffee? And what happened to the body? | ||||
Scoundrels and Stratagems or Virtue Rewarded |
| 1st Produced: | Glenrothes, Fife | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications | 2007 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Melodrama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Penniless Lady Pinchbeck wants to acquire Charity's inheritance for herself and is conspiring to have her removed from the scene, with the doubtful help of Gosling. Squire Buzzard wants to win the hand of Prudence, but she's in love with Gerald, so Buzzard is plotting to discredit his rival. Lamprey has schemes of her own, which involve the disguised Buzzard masquerading as Charity's kidnapper, and Sergeant Quickly and Constable Muggins become involved when Charity disappears. Suspicion falls on Gerald, until after a great deal of confusion and a lot of hilarity, Prudence takes a hand and everything is resolved, though not to everybody's satisfaction. | ||||
Snow Queen, The |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 1996 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | Fairy Tale | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Large Cast | |||
Notes: Now over 60 worldwide productions and also in a Dutch translation as De Sneeuwkoningin published in the Netherlands by Toneeluitgeverij Vink | ||||
Synopsis: Gerda searches for her friend Kai when he's bewitched and imprisoned by the Snow Queen in her ice palace. Gerda's innocence charms all good people and animals she meets, and with the help of a Crow and a Reindeer, she escapes an enchantress, visits the royal court, encounters a robber band, and travels to the far North. There, in a final confrontation with the Snow Queen and her ice creatures, good conquers evil and the children are reunited. | ||||
Spiriting of Burd Ellen, The |
| 1st Produced: | Livingston, Scotland | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Largs Junior Players | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications ISBN 1 904930 62 X | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | Fantasy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 9+ | Female | 9+ |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Awardwinner - Scottish Community Drama Association Play on Words 2004 | ||||
Synopsis: Set in the Middle Ages, the play tells of the mysterious disappearance of Burd Ellen, Childe Rowland's sister. Childe Rowland, reputedly a child of the legendary King Arthur, consults the wizard Merlin, who suspects that Ellen has been spirited away by the Elves. Rowland sets out on a journey to the Dark Tower in the Land of Faery, where he comes face to face with the King of Elfland | ||||
Thicker Than Water |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | 8 m/f | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Mrs Prince makes her son a vampire cloak for his birthday. Harold is captivated, and bites a girl at his birthday party. He decides on a career as a vampire, and his reign as the self-styled Prince of Darkness begins. As Harold grows older, he and his mother encounter horrified parents and a succession of angry teachers, until his fumbling attempts at seduction lead to the deaths of a number of women. Combined with his new career, this eventually results in Harold's downfall and his inevitable destruction in the traditional vampire manner - a stake through the heart. | ||||
Wee Eck and Big Erchie |
| 1st Produced: | Fife, Scotland | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Glenrothes Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Pedersen Press, Glasgow. | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | Scottish Folk Tale | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 3 m/f | |||
Notes: Based on Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Claus and Big Claus". | ||||
Synopsis: Craft Eck makes barrowloads of money from the deaths of his horse and his grandmother. His rival Erchie tries to follow his example but fails miserably. He determines to kill Eck. | ||||
Wise Villagers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Glenrothes Theatre Company Junior Players | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Spotlight Publications ISBN 1 904930 49 2 | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | Youth Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 3 male/female | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||