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"You Can’t Be Serious" Comedy by Joan Woolley 4f & 4m ISBN 1873130163 £7.00 Royalties £40
There’s trouble at Little Buttocks Tennis Club as the committee assemble to grapple with problems at home and abroad. The drains are running uphill, there are inappropriate boxer shorts being worn on court and the door to the women’s’ locker room has strangely developed a very large keyhole. Coupled with that there is the threat of complicated EU legislation on the horizon as the motley club members fight amongst each other for love, status and a sense of belonging.
"Wasps" Tragi-comedy by Tony Breeze 8 females ISBN 1-872758-06-1£7.00 each Royalties £40pp
Set in a traffic wardens office the play explores the interaction between different characters one of whom is an introverted pigeon lover on the edge of a nervous breakdown. They are called in to be interviewed for promotion and while they wait they hold an impromptu birthday party for the pigeon lover. A forgotten present is left over at the end which when given to her sends her over the edge - but who gave it?
First performed by Criterion Players, Coventry
“One Without Shame” Wartime Drama by James Brockbank ISBN 9781873130469 £7.00 Royalties £40pp
A young soldier is told that he has to become a member of a firing squad which will execute a 16yr old for cowardice. He decides to make a stand against this, even though he knows he may suffer the same fate as his young comrade.
"Sepia Serenade" A musical comedy by Tony Breeze 8f & 8m & children & chorus ISBN 9781872758193 £7.00 Royalties £40pp
The local musical theatre group are about to begin one of their performances when an old granddad appears, with his grandchildren, clutching an old fashioned magic lantern. He wants to show them some slides of his early life but the group are naturally not interested. Then a strange thing happens - there's a suspicious power cut so the group is in trouble. Very coincidentally the old man's magic lantern doesn't need electricity and gives out light so they decide to use his lantern and to build a show around it. Slides are shown of his early life while the group perform stories and songs around them. The show is a success and everyone is pleased until they learn another interesting fact at the end.
The Witches of Wicken" Drama by Tony Leonard 3f & 4m & witches & dancers ISBN 9781873130476 £7.00 Royalties £40pp
The play is set in 1950 in a small Cambridgeshire village where, behind the scenes, there is a battle going on between good and evil - but which one will prevail?
"Harry’s Bird" Drama by Tony Breeze 3f + lm ISBN 1-872758-07-X £7.00 each Royalties £40pp
Harry Moss is an ex-teacher/writer being taken by his wife to a hospice for the terminally ill. He is very bitter towards her and the staff until his final days are enlivened by the arrival of a young girl from the probation hostel next door. He teaches her to read and she in return gives him hope in his darkest hour. First performed at The Edinburgh Fringe and later winner in the Nottinghamshire Play of the Year Competition with Mapperley Mavericks of Nottingham.
