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"Tea Girl" Comedy by Christine Rusch 3f & 1m ISBN 9781873130414 £4.00each Royalties £25pp
Written by well-known American playwright, Christine Rusch, who was recently featured in "Best American Plays," this story takes place in an American tea-packing factory in the 1960's (before mechanization) where we see two great characters, Millie and Rosie, who are experienced in more than just machine working, as they meet Violet, the new girl, for the first time. They freely offer her lots of advice, especially when she is due to go out on her first date with Hunter, the new boy on the works coffee truck.
"5T Rules -O.K!" Drama by Tony Breeze A class of secondary age pupils + teacher ISBN 9781872758145 £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
A group of pupils at a comprehensive school stage a sit-in at the top of a classroom block, at the same time taking hostage one of their teachers. They are at first ignored by their headmaster until circumstances eventually force him to change his mind.
Performed in competitions throughout the UK. First published by New Playwrights Network of Macclesfield and later by Ventus Books
"We Have All The Time In The World" Comic sketch by Annette Pakenham-Walsh 5f ISBN 9781873130451 £3.00 Royalties £15
A wonderfully amusing insight into life in retirement for mature females as our heroines assemble in the library cafe to discuss what the day holds in store for them
"Danny Boy" Drama by Tony Breeze 2m +lf (doubling) or 5m+3f (singly) ISBN 9781872758183 £4.00 each Royalties £25
A young man working in a shoe shop decides there must be more to life and joins the Territorial Army. The play finds him on a mountain top in winter slowly dying from hypothermia as he remembers the events and people that led up to his predicament. Ultimately he is faced with an agonizing decision upon which his very survival depends – whether he can kill and eat a tiny mouse
First published by New Playwrights Network of Macclesfield and later by Ventus Books.
"Fresco” Black comedy by Alan Phillips 3f & 3m ISBN 9781873130438 £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
Bianca returns from Northern Australia where she has lived with the Yolgnu tribe, studying their customs, their rock paintings and has even joined in their ceremonial dances (naked). Her local church needs a mural for the hall and Bianca plans a fresco inspired by Aborigine art but she comes up against Unity who is a confirmed spinster and whose deceased father raised the money which will pay for the fresco ... friction ensues
"Ticking" Drama by Tony Breeze minimum of 6f or 6m or unisex ISBN 1-872758-05-3 £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
Set in a subterranean living complex in post-nuclear Britain the inhabitants have been convinced by the governing authority that no life exits on the surface. A rebellious individual leads a group into a forbidden area to show them something that will change their minds – an old-fashioned watch that has dropped from above - but his uprising is quashed when one of the conformists deliberately destroys the article and the others reluctantly return to their conformity
"The Victorious Loser" African Democracy Drama by Moses P'Ado 3f & 3m & 2juvs ISBN 1873130325 £4.00 each Royalties £25pp
"I will not give even a grain of salt to voters because then I won’t be able to tell whether it’s my programme or the salt that they will have voted for. I have said it before and I would like to repeat that if I must bribe voters, peddle lies or mud sling others; if I must contravene the law or worse still sell my conscience for the sake of an office, then I would rather do without that office."
