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MorphMorph is a futuristic musical aimed at a teenage audience. It has been produced in Canada to full houses (Video available from Andrew Agostino). Although a musical, it can be played as straight drama. It can be found at The Dramatic Exchange. Plays by Mary Krell-OishiContemporary Drama Services in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has recently published my newest book of 25 twenty minute one acts entitled Perspectives. Geared primarily for actors between the ages of 17 and 21, this book has already been met with great critical acclaim from the International Thespian Society Western Regional Director. It is always difficult to find scripts for young actors that do not focus on drugs, abuse, runaways, and the like. This book, however, focuses on the trials and errors of simply growing up through the perspective of the young person. I have also written a play for a cast of three women and two men. It takes place in a foyer of a bathroom in the home of a wealthy family at the wedding reception of their children. While the bride and groom never appear, the maid of honor and the guests are the central characters. These people all went to high school together and have reached an age, between 25 - 29, where their lives are in a huge flux from being a kid to being an adult. This bittersweet comedy provides pathos and dramatic moments among the many funnier moments. Currently available are:
All available from Contemporary Drama Services/Meriwether Publishing. Christmas Through 2000 - A Millennium Concert for primary schoolsChristmas Through 200 - A Millennium Concert for primary schools has been written by two teachers, Ian Jones and Jane Woodford, with their overworked colleagues in mind. One of the aims of the concert is to help minimise the work of putting on a successful production, achieved by producing a really comprehensive package of materials :-
The concert can be produced at schools where there is no music specialist / piano player, as well as schools with music specialists, because all the music and songs are taped. Many schools performed our first concert, An Historic Christmas, in this way with great success. Christmas Through 2000 centres around the theme of the Nativity and features related events through the millennium e.g. The Wise Men following the star - Halley's Comet and what it meant to people who saw it at different points in history. The concert covers a range of historical periods and is interspersed with sketches, songs and dance. Our first concert An Historic Christmas is also available. This is based on the National Curriculum requirements for History and traces the development of Christmas through some of the periods outlined in the National Curriculum document i.e. Early Peoples, Saxons, Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts, Victorians to the present day. Arranging and rehearsing become easier because each year studies certain areas of history, and can be allocated set parts from the concert to work on. Comments from schools who have performed the concert state - from an academic point of view the content was well ordered and the children were able to gain sound historical knowledge. Feedback showed this proved to be the case for some of the parents also ! Each concert is available at a very reasonable price from Ian and Jane Jones
SchoolPlay Productions LtdBased in Colchester (Essex), this company has over 100 titles for all ages from under 8 to 16-18, both straight plays and musicals. They also arrange Theatre Performance Holidays during the Ester and Summer holidays. For full details of all they have to offer, contact Jeremy Lucas by email or at 15 Inglis Road Gnometales No 1 - Percy Gnome and the FlowersA children's fairytale with songs and magical spells. Set 10,000 years before human civilisation, when flowers didn't have any smells, Gnometales No 1 - Percy Gnome and the Flowers is the story of Percy Gnome, a young Gnome from Cradle Mountain who invents all the smells for all the flowers around the world. There are 13 fun, easy to learn and sing songs in Gnometales No 1 and four Gnome magical spells to experiment with. Full details from Pierre Cochrane |
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