DAVID WENDEN   (1948 - )


David Wenden
   Nationality:
British
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Plays by David Wenden

DAVID WENDEN
3's Company
1st Produced:
Headgate Theatre, Colchester
2005
Company:
Company of Three (Student Theatre Group)
1st Published:
2005
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Genre:
Tragi-comedy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Minimal set - Three office desks+office swivel chairs. One act only 30 mins duration. Ideal A Level or GCSE material Script contains alternative dialogue for adult productions
Synopsis:
Three friends venture into business together and through the eyes of each girl/woman we are given a retrospective look into their growing up with each other. Scenes from childhood, student days, working days and Mondays in particular tell this triumvirates' tale of relationship and a 'girlies' special bond. A poignant look at what they were and what they are to become, told comically to highlight the tragedy that befalls them.
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DAVID WENDEN
Deja Vu
1st Produced:
Anglia Summer Schools
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
1994
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Genre:
Youth music-theatre, 80 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
written By David Wenden, Andy Jeffers And Ward Baker, Music By Ward Baker
Synopsis:
Two families, each with their own problems, each with their own teenagers, face up to the realisation that family life has to be worked at. Taking situations and people for granted can lead to unhappiness and solitude. For the parents, there is a strange feeling that they have been here before - and probably will again.
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DAVID WENDEN
Mehuja!
1st Produced:
Holmwood House School Colchester
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
1985
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written By David Wenden And Ian Kearney, Music By Ward Baker
Synopsis:
Five evacuees find themselves lodged with a farmer's widow, who exhorts them not to venture into the old barn. Of course they do and thence through a mysterious hole into another world, another dimension. The Mehujans are ruled by a tyrannical robot whose power extends over the children as well until its human origins give an unexpected twist to the tale.
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DAVID WENDEN
Parallel Lines
1st Produced:
Anglia Summer Schools
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
1995
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Genre:
Youth music-theatre, 80 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
17 main speaking parts, extras
Notes:
written By David Wenden, Andy Jeffers And Ward Baker, Music By Ward Baker & Miranda Powell
Synopsis:
Life throws up many challenges and problems, failures and successes, triumphs and defeats; and at each age of man, worries are relevant and no less important. Each contrasting scene illustrates that what may appear trivial to one may be vital to another; each story has its antithesis; each runs on Parallel Lines.
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DAVID WENDEN
Penny For Bob, A, or, Bob For A Penny
1st Produced:
Holmwood House School Colchester
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
Victorian Melodrama, 12 mins
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
6 or 7 speaking parts
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Despite constant interruptions from a "latecomer" the Chairman sets the scene as we witness the plight of Penny Forum, the young mother abandoned to the threats of the landlord's demands for rent, until rescued by her (late) husband's travelling companion, Roland Butter.
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DAVID WENDEN
Pulchritude Personified, or, "Queue For A Bedknob"
1st Produced:
Holmwood House School Colchester
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
Victorian Melodrama, 12 mins
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
6 or 7 speaking parts
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The Chairman has difficulty with both the actors and the stage management in attempting to bring together the down-at-heel heroine, Lucinda Lovelorn, and the unlikely, lisping hero, Eustace Bedknob.
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DAVID WENDEN
Sweet Dreams
1st Produced:
Holmwood House School Colchester
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
1976
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Genre:
Musical Fantasy
Musical
Parts:
Male
12
Female
5
Parts Other:
crowd
Notes:
written By David Wenden and Trevor Huggons, Music By Ward Baker
Synopsis:
Sam has stolen £5 from his parents and although he won't admit it, his conscience is troubling him. So much so that his Conscience comes to life and, to teach him the error of his ways, takes Sam through a nightmare adventure, during which he encounters some very varied recruits and some comic situations at the training school for apprentice consciences.
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DAVID WENDEN
Virtue Of Innocence, The, or, The Innocence Of Virtue
1st Produced:
Holmwood House School Colchester
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
Victorian Melodrama, 12 mins
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
6 or 7 speaking parts
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Old "ham" actors Evelyn Awl and Brandon Irons give stirring "farewell performances" to save their "Little Sweetie" fellow actress (Charlotte Rousse) from the clutches of the scheming, devious and evil confidence trickster, Jake Eland Hyde
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DAVID WENDEN
Wishing Box, The
1st Produced:
Anglia Summer Schools
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
YouthMusical Play, 75 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written By David Wenden, Andy Jeffers And Ward Baker, Music By Ward Baker
Synopsis:
Everybody dreams that they could have whatever they wish. Unfortunately we don't always wish for the things which would be best for us. Perhaps we can learn from living out our wishes and experience what it is like when we wish upon a star.
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