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Rena Pope
Amazing Grace
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The play takes place in a convent where the nuns are enthusiastic D.I.Y experts. The Bishop thought the place had been demolished years ago. Grace, a clumsy duster, manages to turn around a religious stature, or did she? The convent is in crisis. Has the Saint herself turned her back on the whole affair? Is it a miracle, but it's unexpected if it is, but then as one nun says, 'aren't they all'. However it happened, the bishop is forced to re-think his attitude and the audience don't know the answer either.
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One Act Comedy
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Rena Pope
Confessions With Veiled Voices
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Women in "Confessions With Veiled Voices", tell to strangers, in interlocking scenes, things too painful or secret to reveal to friends. Theirs seem to be chance meetings, random confessions, but the women who meet in an hotel opposite a cathedral are not there by accident, their lives and fates are linked by an enormous pot plant physically hiding them like a confessional screen, a colourful Turkish shawl and - a murder. Annie has planned a murder, then given means to escape over breakfast. Two years later she returns to learn the consequences of her actions revealed in veiled voices.
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Rena Pope
Eating Sandwiches
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One of the two-play "Sandwiches" collection. This play can be performed in its own right or as a follow-on from the "Making Sandwiches". The setting is hospital room where a man lies dying. The women - natural homemakers - transform the bare ward into a cosy place to sit, watch and eat sandwiches. Not uncaring, but practical at a time of death, their conversation is amusing and increasingly ironic as the identity of the dying man is revealed.
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One Act Comedy
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Rena Pope
Francis
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Francis, a play with music, introduces St Francis as the despair of his parents and traces elements of his life which led to his becoming the much loved leader of the Franciscans we know today. The continuous action moves from the market place at Assisi to an area outside and can be represented with a backdrop of towers and walls, or a plain curtain. Trestle tables and cut-outs of trees and rocks are moved during the action. The cast can be large or small with doubling up and teenagers, children and adults can all take part in this lively play. Ideally suited to Schools, Children's Theatre and groups which contain children. The action is lively, the music catchy and the play ends with a nativity scene which makes it suitable too for a Christmas show.
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One Act Youth
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Rena Pope
Iron Duke
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Westwood Park has a fascinating variety of residents. There is Lily who shouldn't be in a home for the elderly confused anyway. Lily is seeking relatives, anybody's relatives, and uses the telephone book for inspiration. Kitty, confused and vulnerable sometimes remembers her days in the S.A.S. or was it the ATS ? George, heard about but never seen, relives his naval life on "The Iron Duke". Care staff are aghast when Westwood Park is earmarked for closure and campaign to keep it open - helped by residents. Both funny and sad, the play has one set, seasonal flowers mark the passage of time.
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Drama
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Rena Pope
Lysistrata's Daughters
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An adaptation of 'Lysistrata', has been entered in a drama festival by St. Mary's Women's Group, produced by the vicar's dynamic wife. It concerns Athenian women, sick of the wars with Sparta, calling a sex strike. Perhaps on reflection it wasn't a suitable choice - or was it? Revealing aspects of local life about a men's secret gardening society, come to light during rehearsals in the Scout hut. Feminist sympathies overtake initial reticence, and who says you can't take a marrow hostage? A battle of the sexes ensues, which the women of ancient Athens in Aristophanes' play would have applauded.
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Making Sandwiches
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One of the two-play "Sandwiches" collection. In time of celebration or crises this what women do - make sandwiches. The scene is the aftermath of a wedding. The women gather in one room, the men of the party are heard offstage, drinking and laughing. Friction arises between the mother of the bride and the mother-in-law, but Stanley, an offstage goat, unites them after the men fail them. A play with social comment as well as laughter.
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One Act Comedy
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Rena Pope
Most Perfect Daughter
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A play for five women, a thought provoking and up to the minute exploration of the mother/daughter relationship. Isobel favours Sally, the youngest, over Carrie, a professional woman a doctor like Isobel, but then there is Elsa, the most perfect daughter. The action takes place in a Nursing Home.
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One Act Drama
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Rena Pope
Sandwiches
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Making Sandwiches (6f): In time of celebration or crises this what women do - make sandwiches. The scene is the aftermath of a wedding. The women gather in one room, the men of the party are heard offstage, drinking and laughing. Friction arises between the mother of the bride and the mother-in-law, but Stanley, an offstage goat, unites them after the men fail them. A play with social comment as well as laughter. Eating Sandwiches (7f): This play can be performed in its own right or as a follow-on from the above. The setting is hospital room where a man lies dying. The women - natural homemakers - transform the bare ward into a cosy place to sit, watch and eat sandwiches. Not uncaring, but practical at a time of death, their conversation is amusing and increasingly ironic as the identity of the dying man is revealed.
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One Act Anthology
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Rena Pope
Three Short Plays
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Meriel, an Armful of Warm Silk (4f ) - W.I. members work to restore a bed hanging at a local castle, but a small fragment of the design is missing and they cannot complete the work until they find out what it is. The answer to their problem comes from a stranger. But how does she know the answer to a question that baffled the historians. Monks and Chocolate Digestives (4f) - An old monastery seeks 'ghostly monks' to create an atmosphere for visitors. The local W.I. volunteer but find themselves a person short. The shortfall is made up by a member of a neighbouring W.I. who seems to know the monastery better than any of them. She seems to be in two places at once, or does she actually walk through walls? Music at Midnight (5f) - W.I. member Martha's newly written carol is to be premiered at the Christmas Midnight Mass. It is to be sung by her past music students who are now successful recording artistes. It is Martha's last chance to hear her work as she is becoming increasingly deaf. At midnight the carol is
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One Act Anthology
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Rena Pope
Time And Rosemary
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Visiting a medieval manor house, Rosemary is fascinated by a 15th Century tapestry in the Great Hall. She little imagines she will soon be part of it, changing places with Lady Elizabeth who longs to go shopping and hasn't been out for 200 years. As a tapestry figure, Rosemary learns that a mistake in the Guide Book could be put right with her help. Lady Elizabeth borrows Rosemary's plastic mac to buy thermal underwear, so what is she doing at McDonalds? Later, historians puzzle over the odour of onions pervading ancient documents, the audience know the answer, Rosemary's forgotten.
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One Act Drama
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Rena Pope
Vallee, La
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Jane, a writer of murder mysteries is disturbed by the brooding atmosphere of Carol's second home in France, isolated in an area of disused quarries, granite tombstones and crosses lie half buried in the long grass. Half buried too are secrets from the past which add to the fear as the tension builds, and secrets of the present are revealed. For three friends what should have been a carefree holiday becomes a sinister unfolding of tragedy and betrayal, the house once again is the setting for violence as the women become aware of the danger surrounding them through their love for the same man.
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One Act Drama
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