ALINE WAITES
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by Aline Waites
Aladdin And His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop |
| 1st Produced: | Arches Theatre, Southwark | 1995 | ||
| Company: | Pindar Productions | |||
| 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: | Satirical/topical/ panto | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | piano player | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
Synopsis: Aladdin With the help of his wicked uncle Abanazer (and King of Seattle - William Gates) finds a laptop and discovers the wonders of modern science much to the amazement and eventual prosperity of his mother Mrs Twankey and his sweetheart Mafia Princess Badroulbadour. A new take on the old Aladdin story | ||||
Beauty And The Bat |
| 1st Produced: | Pindar | 1982 | ||
| 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: | Comedy pantomime for all ages | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
Synopsis: Sleeping Beauty and Dracula. Until Beauty is sixteen nothing must pierce her fair skin or she will die. Her guardian Count Dracula is looking forward to her sixteenth birthday. Enter a young prince of the house of Windsor. | ||||
Botome's Dream |
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion Theatre Brighton | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | script and DVD available | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
Synopsis: Shakespeare on trial for plagearism. Ann Hathaway, Kit Marlowe, Will Kemp, Doll Tearsheet, Francis Bacon, Will Shakespeare himself etc plus characters from a Midsummer Night's Dream | ||||
Death On The Isle |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Pindar Productions | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter. Music By Anthony Feldman, Arranged David Wykes. CD of Death on the Isle music is available | ||||
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Dispenser's Return, The; or, Much Ado About Optics |
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion, Bournemouth | - | ||
| 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: | old fashioned melodrama with a modern setting, 30 min | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Originally written for a conference of opticians. since then used for many different companies. Computer companies, booksellers etc. | ||||
Downstairs at Kennedy's |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: contributions to Downstairs at Kennedy's Revue - music by Simon Lowe | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Fanny's Revenge |
| 1st Produced: | Water Rats Theatre | 1987 | ||
| Company: | Pindar Productions | |||
| 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 melodrama | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling, on stage pianist | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter - Music By Jeff Clarke And Aline Waites. DVD of the entire play of Fanny is available | ||||
Synopsis: set in the theatre and spanning the years 1910 - 1932 Neil St Denis is a vulgar front cloth comic. He steals away his sister's baby in order to make her marry the rich Lord Elgin. The child grows up as a music hall turn working all over the world (scenes in Australia (aged six) Stockholm(aged 12) and Paris (aged 18) her only aim in life is to be revenged on the woman she thinks of as her evil mother - and then she meets her brother, Johnny. | ||||
Gone With The Wind (2) |
| 1st Produced: | Pindar Theatre | 1982 | ||
| Company: | Aba Daba Productions | |||
| 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: | comedy musical | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||
Notes: written by David Kelsey, Aline Waites and Robin Hunter musical arrangements by David Wykes | ||||
Synopsis: The story of the making of Gone With the Wind, beginning with the casting of Scarlett O'Hara. The actors play the movie stars as well as the characters. Twenty two song parodies. | ||||
Hit The Fan |
| 1st Produced: | Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London | 1989 | ||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | pianist | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites, Robin Hunter and John Gould | ||||
Synopsis: Comedy songs and sketches intimate revue style. Satirical and Topical -but sadly - most still relevant today | ||||
Jubilarity |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: contributions to Jubilarity - music by David Wykes | ||||
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Lady Of Shalott |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Fantasy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: It is 1996. A beautiful seventy year old lady lives on a remote island in the UK. She has a loving relarionship with her housekeeper Rosa who insists that she takes the pills prescribed by Dr Goldberg. Outside in the garden there is a rough looking servant called Rocco who never enters the house but lives in the stables. She spies a young and handsome doctor out of her window and calls him to her. She tells him that she has been spitting out the pills and is now having vivid dreams of a childhood that she doesn't recognise as her own. Who is the strange lady and how did she get there? | ||||
London Is |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Me And My Puss or The Merchant Of Little Venice |
| 1st Produced: | Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London | 1984 | ||
| Company: | Pindar Productions | |||
| 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: | Satirical/topical/ panto | Show | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | piano player | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter. A non traditional pantomime, with song parodies | ||||
Synopsis: Sarah the cook has gone missing. Her son, Dick, looking for a job, arrives at the Fitzwarrens and falls in love with Alice. Despite the obstacles put in their way by the evil dictator, Maghilda and Jason the Vulgar Boatman, Dick manages to win the election to become mayor of London | ||||
Multicoloured Minstrel Show, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
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None But The Brave |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
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Polly Pulls It Through |
| 1st Produced: | Pindar Theatre | 1982 | ||
| 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: | Parody on Daisy pulls it off | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter, musical arrangements by David Wykes | ||||
Synopsis: Nefarious goings on during the summer hols at a girls seminary | ||||
Put That Light Out |
| 1st Produced: | Arches Theatre, Southwark | - | ||
| Company: | abadaba | |||
| 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: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter. A personal account of the second world war. With songs loved and remembered | ||||
Synopsis: From the day war broke out until the boys came marching home. This is an account of WW2 told in songs and anecdotes. | ||||
Rivita |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Road To Casablanca |
| 1st Produced: | Arches Theatre, Southwark | 1992 | ||
| Company: | abadaba | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||
Notes: written by David Kelsey, Aline Waites and Robin Hunter musical arrangements by David Wykes | ||||
Synopsis: Bing and Bob find themselves involved in the Casablanca story. Parodies of Songs from the "Road" films. And appearances from Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, as well as Rick, Ilse, Yvette, Ugarte, Lazlo, Major Strasse, Ferarri. Guest appearances from Maurice Chevalier, and Marlene. All played by a company of six actors. | ||||
Robin Hood And Mad Marion |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
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Stairway To Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | Underneath the Arches | 1996 | ||
| 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 with Music | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | piano player (or musicians) | |||
Notes: music arranged by David Wykes | ||||
Synopsis: Marilyn's own story told in her own words and illustrated with some of her best known songs. Marilyn arrives (typically) thirty four years late at the Pearly Gates where she encounters Peter and Paul who narrate and play all the men in her life. The words in this play are, whenever possible, those used by Marilyn herself - luckily she talked a great deal, but how much of it was true is anybody's guess. The words of the other characters are also reported as accurately as possible. | ||||
Star Is Dead, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| 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: | whodunnit game | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter | ||||
Synopsis: The audience work out the murderer and how the crime was done | ||||
Thief Of Baghdad, The, Return to the Forgotten Kingdom |
| 1st Produced: | Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London | 1986 | ||
| Company: | Pindar Productions | |||
| 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: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter, musical arrangements by David Wykes. | ||||
Synopsis: Astronaut Brent Crude takes a wrong turn in space and time, finishing up in the Land of Nod. Where the ancient king Prorn reigns over the Citizens of Cain with his daughter Lolita and his maidservant Scheherezade. However they all reckon without the wicked whiles of the Scarlet Shadow, but manage somehow to escape the flood and live happily ever after. | ||||
Yuppity Dumpty |
| 1st Produced: | Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London | 1985 | ||
| Company: | Pindar Productions | |||
| 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: | Topical pantomime - egg based | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Aline Waites and Robin Hunter. This pantomime with references to the kind of crisis suffered by egg shaped yuppies during the reign of a female despot. | ||||
Synopsis: Humphrey Dumpty - a Yuppie, but a good egg - has a romantic adventure with a girl from the East End. | ||||