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"The Power & The Glory" Drama by Tony Breeze 15f + 15m ISBN 1-872758-10-X £7.00 each Royalties £40
A powerful drama based on a combination of two events, which actually occurred in different parts of the world. A small French village sleeps in the summer sun at the end of the Second World War untouched by all that has gone before when the peace is disturbed by the arrival of a group of German soldiers. The villagers cannot be aware of how much their lives are about to change during the next few weeks
"Robbie" Drama by Julia Richdale Ellis 5f 4m Full Length 1-873130-12-0 £7.00 each Royalties £40
A family gathers together after the death of a husband and wife in a car crash to discuss what can be done with Robbie, the son, now left, who was disabled from birth. Each of the sisters have their own reasons for not wanting to take on the responsibility and one of them, the youngest, arrives from Australia where she was sent to live with relatives when he was born.
A thought-provoking play, which makes us all, face up to our own attitudes towards disability.
“My Father’s House” Drama by Tony Breeze 3f + 3m + 2 juvs ISBN 1-872758-23-1 £7.00 each Royalties £40pp
Set in the American Dustbowl in 1929, we see one family’s struggle to cope with grinding poverty as Fate throws everything at them. The Macdonald’s landlord is chasing them for the rent and his spoilt son plays with their two boys. They find a black hobo hiding in their woodshed who is unable to speak and take him in. The racist landlord doesn’t like this and while the latter can pay for his son to have a minor operation, the same can’t be said for the Macdonald’s, whose youngest son is soon seriously injured in a fall from a nearby tree. Joe Macdonald is told that to encourage his son to get better he needs to think of something for him to aim for so he decides to build him a tree house. This doesn’t seem to work until the black hobo points out a phrase from the Bible …”My Father’s house has many rooms” and Joe begins extending the tree house until people come from far and wide to see it. This prompts the landlord to want to use it as a moneymaking venture and he asks Joe to help him with promises of becoming a member of an organization that he’s in. Joe isn’t sure what to do and then the hobo is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. The family goes to a Speaking Competition and while there, Joe learns that the hobo has been lynched by the local KKK. He then finally finds the courage to make a stand.
“The Woman” A symbolic drama by R.Gregory 10+f & 6m ISBN 9781873130445 £7.00 each Royalties £40pp
Two warring tribes live in close proximity and are constantly wary of each other. One day a mad woman is found wandering who seems to have strange powers, powers that could lead one tribe to victory over the other. She becomes priceless in the eyes of each tribe and both want to have control over her.
“The Personal Assistant” Drama by Tony Breeze 3f & 3m (doubling) IBN 9781872758220 £7.00 Royalties £40pp
A disabled, retired, college principal has advertised for a personal assistant to help him and an applicant arrives who seems to have all the right qualities but what the visually-impaired old man doesn’t know is that the applicant is someone from his past who has borne him a grudge for many years …
"Lorenzo's Dream" Drama by Jeffrey A.Lee 2f & 5m ISBN 9781873130513 £7.00 each Royalties £40pp
A play in four scenes based on the eighteen months D.H. Lawrence and Frieda spent in Cornwall during the First World War and set in the living room of Tregerthen Cottage, Zennor. They are being watched by the local constabulary who think, incorrectly, that they may be signalling to German U-boats. This script won the recent Somerset New Play Award.
