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Scarborough: Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2005

Stephen Joseph Scarborough

Samuel French, London

2006

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Drama, 45 min

One Act

2

1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Dora is a seaside landlady with special healing skills. Her friend George is a small time personal manager. Danny, one of his clients, is a brilliant young snooker player with a big future ahead of him. He is already being courted by big-time agents George cannot compete with. Danny has a lot of pain in his past which George believes threatens his career and so he introduces him to Dora. Danny is sceptical but nevertheless impressed with Dora's tough brand of spirituality. However an innocent insight on her part provokes an explosive confrontation between Danny and George.

East Anglia (Tour)

2001

Eastern Angles Theatre Co

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Comedy Drama

Comedy

4

2

2 male parts doubled in original production

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Nick runs a dilapidated American style diner in the Fenland country of Eastern England. The business is failing and he is under pressure to sell out to a corporate buyer - for him it is the latest in a long line of unsuccessful business ventures. He is more romantic than practical - he loves blues music and Americana and in the flat expanse of Fenland likes to think of himself in the English 'delta'. His best buddy Larry, eccentric taxi driver and country music fanatic, feeds his dreams and when one night Ellen, a young African-American blues singer from New Orleans wanders in, in search of her dead father's roots as an Air Force pilot in the region it is like a dream come true. Unfortunately, on the same night Nick's ex-wife Melissa turns up having broken down nearby and the dream has all the makings of a nightmare.

New Forest Region (Tour)

2004

Forest Forge Theatre Co

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Comedy Drama

Comedy

2

1

-

Notes:
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Synopsis:
It is 1959 - the dawn of the age of rock 'n roll - and Sydney Glass, eccentric carnival impresario, has dreams of staging an authentic American blues show at his Hampshire fairground. To this end he has booked several acts - the only one of which to turn up is Ida Littlefield, feisty blues singer from New Orleans. Sydney has also booked Lonnie Burns, a boxer now serving with the American Air Force in East Anglia to fight some exhibition bouts, not realising that Lonnie has only recently jilted Ida at the altar back in Louisiana and joined the Air Force to escape his complicated love life.

Ferrers School Higham Ferrers UK

1995

Higham F.Community Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Historical drama

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50+

50+

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A large scale community play commissioned by the town of Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire and based on the history of the town in the Elizabethan age of the late 16th Century. A cast of over 100, with dance and specially composed music played live by a small orchestra.

East Anglia (Tour)

2003

Eastern Angles Theatre Co

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Comedy Drama

Comedy

5

3

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Notes:
Produced with 5 actors. 2 female parts doubled 2 male parts doubled. Same actor also took very brief walk-on part for third character

Synopsis:
Sometime stand-up comedian Martin Dean has retreated from the world and taken a job as a porter in a Norwich college. New York Jewish humour was his inspiration and after 9/11 he sees nothing to laugh about anymore. But retreating from the world only complicates matters as obsessive-compulsive film buff Esther wants to know more about him while he wants to get closer to Katherine, an ex-nun and counsellor. As if this were not enough Martin finds himself baring his soul to Esther's Uncle Leo, a retired Jewish dentist he has mistaken for a psychiatrist. Meanwhile, in the college basement, Martin is pursued by Jane - seeking revenge on a philandering husband - and a mysterious Cockney Jewish comedian called Lenny Kleinman who keeps coming out of the cupboard and who may or may not actually exist.

Black Cat Jazz Bar Northampton

2006

The Milk Train Theatre Co

-

-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

2

1

-

Notes:
Although 3 actors performed in the original production, the parts of Eddie Cain and Greg Brewster could be doubled and the play performed with 2 actors if required.

Synopsis:
When ambitious young marketing graduate Becky Waters is called to a meeting with her reclusive boss, self-made retail magnate Eddie Cain, she is little prepared for the eccentric world she is drawn into. There seem no limits to Cain's wealth, vaulting ambition or paranoia. He is by turns charming and cruel. She is confused but eager to please, flattered and intrigued. She has been chosen. Cain asks her to deliver a letter to a lawyer in Los Angeles but will tell her nothing of its contents. She must then proceed to San Francisco where she will collect an obscure booklet of poetry from a former Beat bookshop and its unworldly, laid-back owner Greg Brewster, who it soon emerges knows more about Cain than she imagined. To her excitement and alarm Becky soon finds herself involved in two very different transactions as two men from different worlds bargain for her very soul.

Stahl Theatre Oundle U.K

1987

The Chameleon Theatre Co

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

-

Play/Drama

6

1

-

Notes:
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Synopsis:
In an un-named Eastern European country at the height of the Cold War, Barok, a dissident professor of psychiatry, has disappeared without trace from the clinic where he has been confined. He had been under the guardianship of Dr Anna Kranz one of his former students and also his lover before she became a loyal servant of the state. Dymek, a state security officer, investigates the disappearance which was apparently from a locked room. Was it a betrayal, a deliberate test of Anna's loyalty, or something more supernatural ?

Maddermarket Theatre Norwich

1999

Maddermarket Theatre Norwich

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Historical drama

-

7

1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In 1645, during the English Civil War, a company of Parliamentary soldiers occupies an East Anglian seaside town. The church contains a priceless medieval painted screen which the religious zealots in the company want to destroy in accordance with their fundamentalist anti-Catholic ideology. The educated company commander wavers, caught between his artistic sensibilities, his military responsibilities and his feelings for the wife of the arrogant Royalist landowner whose home he occupies and whose politics he despises.

Ferrers School Higham Ferrers UK

2000

H. Ferrers Young People's Theatre

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-

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

-

Play/Drama

30+

25+

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A millennial piece comprising three plays set in the early 1940's, the 1960's and the 1990's and covering the history of one fictional family in Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire.