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Heimann, Monaghan & Petterle
Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life as your only way of passing through to eternity. Imagine that you have just one hour to choose...
A stunning play for five actors which combines traditional storytelling with physical theatre. Ideal for schools, youth groups and amateur theatre companies.
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This play moved me more profoundly than anything I can remember seeing
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Scotsman
Cast : 2M, 2F + 1 extra M/F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-737-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Dominic Cooke
This simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights was adapted by Dominic Cooke during his time as the Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre.
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Superb... weaves a potent spell of enchantment as it moves from cruelty to happiness and from the blissfully ribald to the deeply affecting -
Daily Telegraph
Cast : 5M, 4F (doubling required) Performance Rights : Nick Hern
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-84842-058-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Jacqueline Wilson, adapted Vicky Ireland
An energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.
Mandy's been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum isn't happy – she thinks Tanya's a 'bad girl' and a bad influence. Mandy's sure Tanya can only get her out of trouble, not into it. But can she?
This edition comes with production notes indicating how the play can be staged even with minimal resources - plus a lot of ingenuity!
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Punchy, stimulating and theatrically ingenious...
Bad Girls is a veritable model of theatre for young people
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Manchester Evening News
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-910-0 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Laurence Boswell
This enchanting play can be performed straight or with music, drawn from traditional French folk melodies. The score is available separately from the text.
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Hard to imagine a more hauntingly beautiful children's show
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Daily Telegraph
Cast : 4M, 4F, doubling
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-307-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell
To repay her father’s
debt a young girl agrees to live in the castle of a hideous beast only to
discover that true love can be found in the most unlikely of places, buried
deeper than your heart.
A wild and lively production,
filled with magic and wonder, music and dance. The National Theatre’s Christmas
treat for the family is guaranteed to be as enchanting and beautiful as its
title suggests. Following on from the smash hit
The Cat in the Hat, also directed by Katie Mitchell, this may be a
very different type of story but it’s one that is sure to be every bit as
successful and every bit as thrilling.
Cast : 3M, 3F (doubling required)
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Nick Hern Books UK | 978-1-84842-157-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Chloe Moss
Luke and Christie are typical sixteen-year-old lads from Manchester. They like camping out, drinking lager and talking about girls. But when they leave school and their lives go in different directions, will they still have things in common?
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Moss assuredly captures the exhilarating terror of standing on the cusp of adulthood and leaving childhood certainties behind. She finds credible language to gain access to the inner world of characters who barely know how to speak their minds ... outstandingly touching
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The Guardian
Cast : 1F, 2M (teenagers)
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-908-7 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Stuart Paterson
A classic fairy tale with a twist.
The two ugly sisters and the vicious step mother get their come-uppance, but Cinders, in a thoroughly refreshing alternative, rejects the spoilt and arrogant Prince in favour of the genuine and reliable Buttons.
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One of the most powerful children's Christmas plays written anywhere in the last 25 years
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Joyce McMillan,
The Scotsman
Cast : 4M, 4F (doubling required)
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-484-6 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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David Edgar
A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.
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Both a theatrical feast and an intellectual challenge
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Cast : 6M, 3F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-297-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Joy Wilkinson
Fair
Melanie meets Railton upside down on the Revolution ride. A spin on the waltzer, some chips and a spliff, and it goes off like fireworks ... until she discovers his politics, and the relationship implodes. What is turning young people to the right? How and why are the BNP managing to recruit?
Fair confronts the racism brewing in Britain's northern towns and beyond.
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With its thought-provoking politics, warm-hearted humanism and ideas about English identity, this is an evening that's as near bliss as you can get
- The Stage
Felt Effects
Unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Tremors happen around us everyday and are so weak they are classified as 'Not Felt', but the effects of the earthquake now erupting under this family's feet are impossible to ignore.
Awards
- 2004 Verity Bargate Award.
Cast : Fair - 1F, 2M ; Felt Effects - 3F, 2M
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-903-2 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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Anupama Chandrasekhar
Chennai, southern India. When a well brought up, middle-class girl is filmed having sex with a boy in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Transmitted from person to person it infects firstly the local community and then seemingly the entire country with a burning moral outrage. The rampant technology of the modern world is set against the natural conservatism of a traditional society.
Free Outgoing is the extraordinarily involving story of an ordinary family suddenly thrust into the public eye because of something they’d much rather hide.
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The play’s importance is that it fills a gap in our knowledge – India seen not through sentimental or guilt-ridden colonial eyes, but as it really is: a nation torn between rapid advance and ethical conservatism
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The Guardian
Cast : 3M, 4F
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Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-539-3 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
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