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CAROLINE SMALL (1959 - ) |
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Plays by Caroline Small |
Balancing Act | ||
| 1st Produced: | Touring Production | 2001 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101496 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned in 2001 by North Derbyshire Community Health for a conference on menopause, Balancing Act has since been performed at numerous women's health events and arts festivals. | |||||
Synopsis: | Meet Val, an ordinary woman in the middle of the morning from Hell. With pressure from all sides to make a Very Big Decision, Val is losing her grip. She knows it's just her age but that's hardly reassuring. "Thinning hair, brittle bones, possibly madness. A downward spiral into chaos..! I don't want to make decisions - I just want to lie down." This funny and haunting one-woman play invites the audience into Val's kitchen to share her thoughts about relationships, doctors' surgeries, shopping and chocolate, in a monologue which reflects the experience of every woman (and a great many men) regardless of age. | |||||
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Black Bread and Tired Feet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Maynard Arms, Derbyshire | 2000 | ||||
Organisations: | Cotton Grass Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101498 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Theatre One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | One-act play. Production photos at www.cottongrass.mirai.co.uk | |||||
Synopsis: | A starburst of storytelling theatre inspired by three Russian folk tales: Baboushka, The Little Snow Girl and Ivan Gets It Wrong. | |||||
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Dore Tales Trilogy: Ecgbert and After; Masters and Men; Pillars of the Community | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dore Village, Sheffield | 2002 | ||||
Organisations: | Dore Millenium Play Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101495 | |||
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Genre: | Community Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Trilogy of plays celebrating a thousand years of history in this community on the edge of Sheffield. Written for a large ensemble of actors from the community. | |||||
Synopsis: | Ecgbert and After takes a light-hearted and often irreverent look at events from Dore's distant past and celebrates this ancient village community. "Masters and Men" focuses on times of great change and upheaval, not only in Dore but also in the country as a whole. The play examines the impact of the Enclosures Act and also tells the dramatic story of saw-grinder, Elisha Parker, who was the victim of several attacks during the so-called "Sheffield Outrages". The play portrays Dore as it was in the nineteenth century: a working-class Derbyshire village where most of its inhabitants were engaged in agriculture and the metal working trades. "Pillars of the Community" is a guided tour of two of the mainstays of village life: the school and the church. The play celebrates and immortalises some of the characters who have enriched and enlivened the community over the years. | |||||
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Gardens of Delight | ||
| 1st Produced: | Open-Air Theatre, Greenfields Farm, Alport, Derbyshire | 2000 | ||||
Organisations: | Cotton Grass Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101497 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Production photos at www.cottongrass.mirai.co.uk | |||||
Synopsis: | Full-length adaptation of stories from the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. A riotous and bawdy evening of storytelling and slapstick: saucy spouses and hapless husbands, naughty nuns and fraudster friars. In the Decameron seven young women and three young men escape the danger of the Black Death by moving into a palazzo in the hills. They entertain themselves by telling stories: one story each for ten days, following a different theme each day. One of the young men is Filostrato whose heart burns with unrequited love for one of the young women in the group. "Gardens of Delight" is set fifty years later. Filostrato, now in his seventies and the only surviving member of the original group, returns to the empty palazzo to live in the gardens as they did before and to remember the woman he has never stopped loving. Four of his servants travel with him, bringing everything they need for this medieval camping expedition and to entertain themselves, they begin to tell stories. . .. Eight stories are told in Gardens of Delight, seven of them from the original text, the eighth being Filostrato's own story which frames the play. | |||||
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Glorious Tale of the Golden Whale, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bishop Purseglove School, Tideswell, Derbyshire | 1999 | ||||
Organisations: | Cotton Grass Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101500 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Theatre One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 30 M or F | |||||
Notes: | One-act play for a cast of children, set mostly underwater. Production photos at www.cottongrass.mirai.co.uk | |||||
Synopsis: | A funny and poignant tale about friendship, written for a cast of children aged 6 to 14. A beautiful but lonely Golden Whale is befriended by the princess of the oceans and needs to be rescued by a host of fellow sea creatures when he falls into the hands of man. | |||||
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Hollow Country, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hope Valley College, Derbyshire | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | Cotton Grass Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101501 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Theatre One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 M or F | |||||
Notes: | One-act play for a children's audience. Production photos at www.cottongrass.mirai.co.uk | |||||
Synopsis: | Deep, deep down, in the World Below, Screwstone sits and dreams of the Sky. "Beware of the Sky!" the Rocks seem to whisper but Screwstone is curious and finds a way out to the World Above. In the dazzling light he meets Jenny who helps him and together they discover strangeness and sameness, laughter and danger, in the World Above and deep underground. "The Hollow Country" is a play for children inspired by the landscape, legends and history of Derbyshire's Peak District. | |||||
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Into The Rose Garden | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Barn, Greenfields Farm, Alport, Derbyshire | 1999 | ||||
Organisations: | Cotton Grass Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101499 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | One-act play. Production photos at www.cottongrass.mirai.co.uk | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women meet by chance after an estrangement of twenty years. Cautiously they examine their fractured relationship in this complex, haunting and funny play. Developed in collaboration with director, Sarah Bradnock, and actress, Susan Daniel, Into The Rose Garden is a sensitive exploration of memories, perception and missed opportunities. | |||||
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Keep Off The Grass! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hope Valley College, Derbyshire | 1997 | ||||
Organisations: | Hope Valley College Drama Department | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1997) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840940831 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32477 | |||
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Genre: | Youth One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | + 3m/f + extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jeremy and Jemima Tourist are determined to give their children a traditional picnic but the beauty spot they have chosen is the very last patch of grass in the world! They soon find themselves defending their right to picnic against a botanist, a farmer and his cows and a documentary film crew! As more characters arrive to stake their claim on the grass, the Government Minister, Sir Oscar Wheatear, steps in - with disastrous consequences! This play introduces the major environmental theme of "sustainability" and invites the audience to explore their own solutions to the characters' problems. | |||||
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Last Laugh, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Buston Festival Fringe | 13 Jul 2010 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116832 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | a play originally written for radio in 2003 by the High Peak Writers from Buxton, has been adapted for the stage by Caroline Small after receiving funding from Derbyshire Community Foundation | |||||
Synopsis: | When a successful comedienne has a psychotic episode, her talents and the opinions of those around her are tested to their limits. This timely premiere shines a questioning light on the media's notion of mental illness. | |||||
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Living Dangerously | ||
| 1st Produced: | Open Door Youth Theatre, Town Hall, Ashbourne | 2007 | ||||
Organisations: | Open Door Youth Theatre, Ashbourne | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101491 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Theatre One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5+ | Female | 5+ | ||
Parts other: | 8 M or F | |||||
Notes: | One-act play for youth theatre. Ensemble piece with opportunities for doubling. Suggested age range 14+. Running time: 50 minutes | |||||
Synopsis: | When I was eleven they told me my body was a time bomb, steadily ticking towards destruction. Melt down. Oblivion. Jack has a secret. Even his best friends don't know that he probably won't live beyond his twenties. Living Dangerously is a challenging and thought-provoking play about the Game of Life and how we play it. | |||||
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Now You See Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Open Door Youth Theatre, Town Hall, Ashbourne | 2007 | ||||
Organisations: | Open Door Youth Theatre, Ashbourne | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101492 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Theatre One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6+ | Female | 12+ | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble M or F | |||||
Notes: | One-act play for youth theatre. Ensemble piece with opportunities for doubling (original cast: 38). Suggested age range 10 - 16. Running time: 1 hour | |||||
Synopsis: | Performed as a game, "Now You See Me. . ." tells the story of two best friends whose relationship goes badly wrong when one starts to 'steal' the other's identity. It's a play about power and control - and finding out who you really are. An ensemble piece suitable for a large cast. All the actors are in the Chorus and named characters emerge from the Chorus as required. Where possible, the Chorus remain on stage throughout the play. They narrate, comment on, orchestrate and stage manage the action. | |||||
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On Common Ground | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, New Mills, Derbyshire | 2008 | ||||
Organisations: | High Peak Community Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101489 | |||
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Genre: | Community Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8+ | Female | 8+ | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble | |||||
Notes: | Full-length ensemble piece with flexible casting. Developed in collaboration with composer Aidan Jolly and members of the community from Derbyshire's High Peak. Copy of script held in the Working Class Movement Library, Salford. | |||||
Synopsis: | Commissioned and produced to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 'Mass Trespass' on Kinder Scout. "On Common Ground" is a celebration of the struggle of ordinary people to gain access to the countryside exploration of land use and land ownership in the past, present and future. Using music, multi-media and jump-cuts through time and space, the play explores issues of land use and land ownership in the past, present and future. Central to the play is the remarkable story of the Kinder Trespass, when a large group of young ramblers from Manchester and Sheffield defied police and local landowners to roam across the High Peaks of Derbyshire. | |||||
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Paradise Park | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hope Valley College, Derbyshire | 1991 | ||||
Organisations: | Hope Valley College | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101503 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Theatre / Youth Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 16 | ||
Parts other: | Chorus - unlimited | |||||
Notes: | Full-length musical for performance by young people. Music by Paul Barker. Suggested age range: 10 - 18. | |||||
Synopsis: | Paradise Park is simply a rubbish dump - an urban wasteland next to a disused canal - but to the children who play there, the 'park' is something special. An oasis of freedom in the heart of the city. Unfortunately the local council, represented by its outlandish and operatic planning committee, has earmarked the 'park' for re-development. The children join forces with the mysterious Jacob, an old storyteller whose barge is moored on the canal, and the battle for Paradise begins. "Paradise Park" was runner-up for the award for Most Promising Work for Young People at the 1999 Vivian Ellis Prize and has had many repeat productions by schools and youth theatres. | |||||
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Stop! Think! Rewind! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hope Valley College, Derbyshire | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | Hope Valley College Drama Department | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (1997) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840940848 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32478 | |||
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Genre: | Youth One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | 5 M or F | |||||
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Synopsis: | Ten year old Beth has one big advantage over other children: she can pause and rewind her life like a video. When her best friend moves away, Beth is vulnerable, shy and lonely until she meets the more sophisticated Kathy who smokes and drinks and wants Beth to join her. As her problems mount up, Beth pauses the action and appeals to the audience for help. For performance by young people to primary school audiences, this play raises issues of personal responsibility and decision making and is a powerful tool for education about drugs and substance abuse. | |||||
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Tales from Nowhere | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes | 2008 | ||||
Organisations: | The Stables Theatre, Milton Keynes | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101490 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Theatre/Music Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 20+ | Female | 20+ | ||
Parts other: | Ensemble | |||||
Notes: | A music theatre script for children commissioned and produced by The Stables Theatre Education Department in collaboration with Wavendon Gate Primary School. Ensemble piece originally performed by a cast of 120 children aged 9 to 11. | |||||
Synopsis: | Tales from Nowhere was devised and written in collaboration with primary school children. It tells the story of a mysterious, magical island and what happens to the people who are shipwrecked on its shores. The script is a mixture of sung and spoken text, combined with sections without words during which the story is told through mime, movement, dance and music. | |||||
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Travels With A Broken Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Touring production | 2005 | ||||
Organisations: | CCH | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101493 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Singer | |||||
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Synopsis: | An original monologue inspired and punctuated by songs from Europe and the USA. History teacher Charlotte Baxter travelled extensively around Europe between the two World Wars. In 1949, as she prepares her journals for publication, the memories come flooding back and she reflects on how her modest sight-seeing trips brought her close to some of the most momentous events in recent history. | |||||
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Unknown Land, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Touring production | 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | Cotton Grass Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101488 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Musician | |||||
Notes: | Full-length play for one actor and one musician. Music and songs are an integral part of the story. | |||||
Synopsis: | The whiteness of the Arctic is like a blank canvas. It takes you back to your past. You remember everything. Your mind has to go somewhere or you will go mad. (21st century polar adventurer speaking on 'Arctic' - BBC Radio 4) "The Unknown Land" is a play for one actor and one musician, inspired by true accounts of nineteenth century Arctic exploration, Inuit mythology and the fatal attraction of the polar regions. The year is 1844. A man answers an advertisement inviting him to join a ship bound for arctic waters. What has compelled him to travel to this inhospitable place and what does he hope to find? His experiences on the voyage, the loneliness and the merciless cold change him forever. The certainties of his early life are stripped away as he struggles to keep hope alive. | |||||
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Which Witch? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Merlin Theatre, Sheffield | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | Merlin Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101502 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Theatre / Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An adaptation of the novel by Eva Ibbotson. Written for large cast of actors from the community. Also produced with a youth theatre cast in 1996. | |||||
Synopsis: | Adaptation of the hilarious children's novel by acclaimed author, Eva Ibbotson. Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North, needs a wife. How else can he have a wizard baby to carry on the family tradition of blighting and smiting, blasting and wuthering? The problem is, wizards can only marry one kind of person: a witch. Arriman dreads the thought. "A great black crone with warts and blisters in unmentionable places from crashing about on her broom! You want me to sit opposite one of those every morning eating my cornflakes?" But a witch it must be, so Arriman holds a contest to decide which witch. | |||||
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Woman's Life and Loves, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Touring production | 2004 | ||||
Organisations: | CCH | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101494 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Singer | |||||
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Synopsis: | Marion thinks 45 is too young to be the "mother-of-the-bride-to-be". As her daughter's wedding looms she reflects on life and love. Original monologue inspired by Schumann's song cycle "Frauenliebe und -leben". | |||||
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