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| Aladdin | Script with suggestions for optional songs. Large cast. 1 hr 20 mins
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| Ali Baba | Script with suggestions for optional songs. Large cast. 1 hr 20 mins
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Musical whodunnit for adults, with backing tracks. 8m, 5f plus chorus. Circa 2 hrs
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| Beauty and the Beast/The Summer Garden | Musical play for children with backing tracks. Large cast. This is NOT the Disney version. 1 hr 30 mins
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| Cinderella | Script with suggestions for optional songs. Large cast. 1 hr 20 mins
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| Coppelia | Musical play for children. Large cast, songs and dances, 1 hr 20 mins
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| Dick Whittington | Script with suggestions for optional songs. Large cast. 1 hr 45 mins
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| Down Stepney Way | Musical play for older children and adults, with backing tracks. Very large cast. Over 2 hours.
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| Escape From Ragnarok Mountain | Adventure play for children. No songs.
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| Hansel and Gretel | Musical play for children, with backing tracks. 11 speaking parts plus chorus. Just over 1 hr
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| Just Another Friday | Traditional farce for adults. 4m, 3f, 1 m or f. 1 hr 15 mins
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| King Arthur | Musical play for children with backing tracks. Available spring 2008
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| Peter Pan | Musical play based on JM Barrie's original play script. This is NOT the Mary Martin version. Large cast. 1hr 30 mins
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| Puss in Boots | Script with suggestions for optional songs. Just over 1 hr.
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| Robin Hood | Script with suggestions for optional songs. Lots of speaking parts. 1 hr 25 mins
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| Rumpelstiltskin | Musical play for children with backing tracks. Large cast. 1 hr 20 mins
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| Saint Trinian's, The Musical | Musical set in St Trinian's School. Not based on the films. 2 hours
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| Slick | Musical play with backing tracks. Rock 'n' Roll flavour. Set in 1960s. Large cast with many speaking parts. Circa 2 hrs
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| Tagula Suva | Musical pirate adventure on the high seas. 90 mins
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| The Alternative Snow White | An alternative interpretation of the well-known story for adults. A musical with backing tracks. 24 speaking parts. 2 hrs
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| The Summer Garden/Beauty and the Beast | Musical play for children with backing tracks. This is NOT the Disney version. Large cast. 1 hr 30 mins
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| The Blue Lamp | Traditional farce for adults. Set in a police station in London. 90 mins
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| The Nun's Trail | Comedy play for adults. Set in a prison and a convent. 90 mins |
| When Toad Came Home | Musical play for children with backing tracks. Large cast. 1 hr 30 mins
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| Tom Thumb | Script with suggestions for optional songs.
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| The Alternative Treasure Island | An alternative interpretation of the well-known story for adults. A musical with backing tracks. 17 speaking parts. Circa 2 hrs |
Act 1, Scene 1 Miss Hathaway's Cottage,
Little Snoring, Gloucestershire
The scene is one of cosy rural life in a humble, but comfortable cottage. Two chairs are pulled up round the fire. Arabella paces nervously up and downstage as if in a quandary.
ARABELLA Oh my, what am I to do? Poor Dick, goes out each morning in search of a job and every evening returns forlorn and dejected. The thing is, you see, we are destitute. For the uneducated ones among you it means we're poor. (Ah!) We're much poorer than that. (Big ah!) You see, although my father was a rich man, I am the last one of ten children. The boys inherited the estate and what little money I was given has run out. To make matters worse, I have to feed and clothe young Dick, my nephew. He eats like a horse and grows like a giraffe. I have to keep extending his trousers and jackets. Don't get me wrong, I love him dearly – I just can't afford to keep him any longer. So, I've come to a decision….
(Noises off of whistling.)
Oh dear, here he comes now. Come a little closer and you'll hear what I've decided to do.
(Enter Dick, wearing patchwork clothes.)
DICK Hey ho, Aunt, what's for supper?
ARABELLA Turnip soup.
DICK Oh, not again! We had turnip soup yesterday, and the day before, and the day before. It seems to taste more like water each day.
ARABELLA That's because I'm using the same turnips.
DICK Oh Aunt Arabella, are we so poor?
ARABELLA Yes, I'm afraid we are, Dick. Actually, I wanted to talk to you about that….
DICK Look what I brought you, Auntie. A pair of trout, fresh from the river.
ARABELLA Why, thank you, Dick. But you should have spent the time looking for a job. Now, Dick, I need to speak to you…..
DICK You are speaking to me. Hey, guess what! I nearly got a job today, Aunt.
ARABELLA What do you mean, ‘nearly'? You either got it or you didn't.
DICK Well, the man in front of me in the queue got it. If I'd been a few minutes earlier…
ARABELLA But you weren't, were you. Look, Dick, it's time we had a talk.
DICK But Auntie, we always talk.
ARABELLA Sit down, Dick, I'm being serious.
(He looks at her, then at the audience.)
DICK Oh dear, you really are serious.
ARABELLA Dick, I'll come straight to the point.
(He is grimacing.)
You'll have to leave!
DICK (Sniffing his armpit) Why do I smell or something? If I do it's probably just the fish…..
ARABELLA No, I mean for good - permanently.
DICK What, leave home – for good. (Looks woefully at the audience.)
ARABELLA You must understand, Dick, that we have no money. I cannot afford to keep you any longer. You must go to London to seek your fortune.
DICK Why can't I seek it in Little Snoring.
ARABELLA All there is here is a church, a pub and a handful of cottages. There is nothing for you here.
DICK But London – it's over a hundred miles away! I suppose I could get a bus.
ARABELLA A what?
DICK Oh no, they haven't been invented yet. I suppose I'll just have to walk. But what will become of you, Aunt Arabella?
ARABELLA Don't worry about me – I'll be just fine.
DICK One day, when I'm rich, I'll come back and repay you for your kindness. You've dedicated your life to bringing me up since my parents died when I was a baby.
ARABELLA Your mother was my sister, remember, and as I never married, you are my closest family.
DICK But why did you not find a husband?
ARABELLA I did have a sweetheart, in my youth. He was a dashing young gentleman. We called him Bunny, although that was just a nickname. We were engaged to be married.
DICK What happened, Auntie? Why did it not work out?
ARABELLA Well, rather like you, he had no money. He went off to London to find fame and fortune – and I never saw him again.
(She takes out her hanky and sniffs. Dick puts his arm around her.)
DICK Why, that's terrible. What became of him.
ARABELLA The last I heard he had gone to sea with some friend who knew a sea captain. I don't even know whether he is alive or dead.
DICK Aunt Arabella, I shall go to London , I shall become rich and just as soon as I do I shall return to Little Snoring to look after you.
ARABELLA Thank you, Dick.
DICK As you so rightly said, I am your only family – and I don't intend to desert you.
SONG 1 Family (from James and the Giant Peach)