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Breaker's Yard
Full Circle
Lonely Shepherd, The
Lumpy Custard

	SYD RALPH
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Breaker's Yard

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1st Published:		SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>>, 1992		ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:		-			doollee no	#53742
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Genre:		Youth Musical, 120 min Youth Audience
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		large cast
Notes:		music by Chris Tingley
Synopsis:		The slums of Victorian London provide an easy opening for the enigmatic Jack Breaker to purvey his "Rainbow Dreams" - and to ensnare many others beside those already trapped by poverty. A powerful, energetic and thought-provoking piece of Music-Theatre, offering challenge to director and cast as well as to the audience.
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Full Circle

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1st Published:		SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>>, 1991		ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:		-			doollee no	#53743
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Genre:		Youth Rock Musical, 1 Act Youth Audience
Parts:		Male		7	Female	16
Parts other:		crowd
Notes:		This hard-hitting piece provides a fast-moving focus on some of the emotional and practical issues facing teenagers today, examining, with honesty and humour, their relationships with each other and with their parents. It also questions the part played by the media in modern society [is their role merely reporting events or is it more insidious?] before a strange twist in the tail completes the story.
Synopsis:		Young singer / songwriter Martin Cole's new single reaches the pop charts and he discovers that being successful is not what he expected. Pressure from local radio DJ's, his agent and the advertising moguls closes in on him and on his relationships with his very ordinary family, girl friend and other friends. With an "Elvis-type" spoof of a nightmare, a gaggle of performing Brownies and a chaotic film-set sequence, this piece offers great scope for imagination, versatility and humour.
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Lonely Shepherd, The

1st Produced:		- - -			- - -
Company:		n/a
1st Published:		SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>>, 1994		ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:		-			doollee no	#50544
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Genre:		Youth Christmas Musical, 30 min Youth Audience
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		25 speaking parts, chorus
Notes:		music by Chris Tingley
Synopsis:		One of the children cast in the school nativity play suddenly tears off his costume and refuses to perform. Christmas, he claims, is about presents and parties, toys and cakes - and he proudly announces what he has received. But once he realises that he has only taken and not given, he feels lonely, needs friends and understands something of the Christmas spirit.
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Lumpy Custard

1st Produced:		- - -			- - -
Company:		n/a
1st Published:		SchoolPlay Productions Ltd, Colchester, Essex, UK >>>, 1990		ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:		-			doollee no	#53741
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Genre:		Youth Rock Musical, 100 min Youth Audience
Parts:		Male		23	Female	25
Parts other:		crowd
Notes:		music by David Masters
Synopsis:		Young singer / songwriter Martin Cole's new single reaches the pop charts and he discovers that being successful is not what he expected. Pressure from local radio DJ's, his agent and the advertising moguls closes in on him and on his relationships with his very ordinary family, girl friend and other friends. With an "Elvis-type" spoof of a nightmare, a gaggle of performing Brownies and a chaotic film-set sequence, this piece offers great scope for imagination, versatility and humour.
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