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Aline Waites

ALINE WAITES  

Nationality:    English
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Trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas winning a silver medal and scholarship to BBC Rep. Was Gwen in Mrs Dales Diary. Worked as an actress until 1969, started aba daba company and Pindar productions, producing shows at the Pindar of Wakefield, The Water Rats, Underneath the Arches, The Canal Cafe, the Kings Head and many other venues in London's West End and the provinces. Also tours and seasons in Denmark , Sweden , Germany and France , All over British Columbia , Seattle , Portland , San Francisco and many other venues on the pacific coast. Wrote much material for revue style productions. Author with Robin Hunter of the Illustrated Victorian Songbook published by Michael Joseph . Also with Robin Hunter wrote pantomimes, revues, books and lyrics for musicals with music by David Wykes, Antony Feldman Jeff Clarke and Edward Elgar  and with David Kelsey, comedy versions of Casablanca and Gone with the Wind (eighteen productions between 1982 and 1997). Reviewer and Interviewer for Plays and Players national theatre magazine. Currently reviewing for the Ham and High. Has a BA hons lit degree from the Open University, and is now studying Psychology.

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Aladdin And His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop         Beauty And The Bat         Botome's Dream         Death On The Isle         Dispenser's Return, The; or, Much Ado About Optics         Downstairs at Kennedy's         Fanny's Revenge         Gone With The Wind (2)         Hit The Fan         Jubilarity         Lady Of Shalott         London Is         Me And My Puss or The Merchant Of Little Venice         Multicoloured Minstrel Show, The         None But The Brave         Polly Pulls It Through         Put That Light Out         Rivita         Road To Casablanca         Robin Hood And Mad Marion         Stairway To Paradise         Star Is Dead, A         Supernatural - a         Thief Of Baghdad, The, Return to the Forgotten Kingdom         Yuppity Dumpty



Aladdin And His Microsoft Compatible Floppy Drive Laptop

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

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

1st Produced:
Arches Theatre, Southwark    1995

Organisations:
Pindar Productions

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Genre:
Satirical/topical/ panto Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  piano player

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Beauty And The Bat

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.

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

1st Produced:
Pindar    1982

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Genre:
Comedy pantomime for all ages

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  musicians

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Botome's Dream

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

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

1st Produced:
Pavilion Theatre Brighton    1986

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1st Published:
script and DVD available,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  musicians

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Death On The Isle

Synopsis:
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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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Organisations:
Pindar Productions

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Dispenser's Return, The; or, Much Ado About Optics

Synopsis:
Originally written for a conference of opticians. since then used for many different companies. Computer companies, booksellers etc.

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1st Produced:
Pavilion, Bournemouth    -

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Genre:
old fashioned melodrama with a modern setting, 30 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  musicians

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Downstairs at Kennedy's

Synopsis:
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Notes:
contributions to Downstairs At Kennedy's Revue - music by Simon Lowe

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Genre:
Revue Show

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fanny's Revenge

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.

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter - Music By Jeff Clarke And Aline Waites. DVD of the entire play of Fanny is Available

1st Produced:
Water Rats Theatre    1987

Organisations:
Pindar Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical melodrama Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  doubling, on stage pianist

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Gone With The Wind (2)

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.

Notes:
written by David Kelsey, Aline Waites And Robin Hunter musical Arrangements by David Wykes

1st Produced:
Pindar Theatre    1982

Organisations:
Aba Daba Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  musicians

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Hit The Fan

Synopsis:
Comedy songs and sketches intimate revue style. Satirical and Topical -but sadly - most still relevant today

Notes:
written by Aline Waites, Robin Hunter And John Gould

1st Produced:
Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London    1989

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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  pianist

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Jubilarity

Synopsis:
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Notes:
contributions to Jubilarity - music by David Wykes

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Genre:
Revue Show

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lady Of Shalott

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?

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Genre:
Fantasy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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London Is

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Me And My Puss or The Merchant Of Little Venice

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

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter. A non traditional pantomime, with song parodies

1st Produced:
Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London    1984

Organisations:
Pindar Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Satirical/topical/ panto Show

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  piano player

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Multicoloured Minstrel Show, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

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None But The Brave

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

1st Produced:
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Genre:
Revue Show

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Polly Pulls It Through

Synopsis:
Nefarious goings on during the summer hols at a girls seminary

Notes:
Written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter, musical Arrangements by David Wykes

1st Produced:
Pindar Theatre    1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Parody on Daisy pulls it off Show

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Put That Light Out

Synopsis:
From the day war broke out until the boys came marching home. This is an account of WW2 told in songs and anecdotes.

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter. A personal Account of the second world war. With songs loved And remembered

1st Produced:
Arches Theatre, Southwark    -

Organisations:
abadaba

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Revue Show

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Rivita

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

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Road To Casablanca

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.

Notes:
written by David Kelsey, Aline Waites And Robin Hunter musical Arrangements by David Wykes

1st Produced:
Arches Theatre, Southwark    1992

Organisations:
abadaba

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  musicians

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Robin Hood And Mad Marion

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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Stairway To Paradise

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.

Notes:
music Arranged by David Wykes

1st Produced:
Underneath the Arches    1996

Organisations:
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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  piano player (or musicians)

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Star Is Dead, A

Synopsis:
The audience work out the murderer and how the crime was done

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter

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Genre:
whodunnit game

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Supernatural - a

Synopsis:
Adaptation of Victorian horror stories. For the 21st century. Set in a tube station with no name, seven people are on a journey - only one of them knows where. Powerful comedy actors required and fantastic sound and lighting technicians!!!

Notes:
By Aline Waites And Jago Turner directed by Mykal Rand

1st Produced:
Lion and Unicorn, London    24 Nov 2009

Organisations:
Giant olive

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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Thief Of Baghdad, The, Return to the Forgotten Kingdom

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.

Notes:
written by Aline Waites And Robin Hunter, musical Arrangements by David Wykes.

1st Produced:
Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London    1986

Organisations:
Pindar Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Yuppity Dumpty

Synopsis:
Humphrey Dumpty - a Yuppie, but a good egg - has a romantic adventure with a girl from the East End.

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.

1st Produced:
Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London    1985

Organisations:
Pindar Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Topical pantomime - egg based Pantomime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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