Lisa Evans
Keep Smiling Through
The Day The Waters Came
Glory Glory
The Gift By John Moorhouse
Up The Duff
The Maid of Buttermere
Frankenstein
Cat’s Eye
Villette
Once We Were Mothers
Jamaica Inn
Getting To The Foot Of The Mountain
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
The Shadow Of Light
East Lynne
Slap
Lucky Country
Christmas Without Herods
The Pearl
The Red Chair
Better Than Burning
Glad
Crime Of The Century
Stamping Shouting & Singing Home
Taking Liberties
Vindication
Face Values
Under Exposure
Inside Out
Mother’s Day
The Day The Waters Came
Glory Glory
The Gift By John Moorhouse
Up The Duff
The Maid of Buttermere
Frankenstein
Cat’s Eye
Villette
Once We Were Mothers
Jamaica Inn
Getting To The Foot Of The Mountain
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
The Shadow Of Light
East Lynne
Slap
Lucky Country
Christmas Without Herods
The Pearl
The Red Chair
Better Than Burning
Glad
Crime Of The Century
Stamping Shouting & Singing Home
Taking Liberties
Vindication
Face Values
Under Exposure
Inside Out
Mother’s Day
Cast: 6 women, 3 men
Keswick, 1940 – Britain is at war with Germany. Maggie’s life is under invasion too: Gran knitting for England, evacuee lodgers, helping with the war effort – and now a fund-raising concert party! Husband Rob is due home on RAF leave and best friend Peg has just learnt that she’s pregnant – but no such luck for Maggie and Rob.
Nostalgia, romance, laughter and tears all feature in this comedy full of live music, songs and dance from the war years
Cast: 2 women, 2 men. Black.
A sister piece to STAMPING, SHOUTING & SINGING HOME. It's summer 2005. Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand, sometimes the throat, and leads you through her landscape the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and the US Government did nothing. Go with her, as she shows you how her world and that of thousands of black American citizens changed for ever, the day the waters came. Age Advice: 13+
Writers Guild Award for Best Play for Children & Young People 2011
Cast: 2 women in their 50's
Using song and dark humour two women, bunking off from singing rehearsals, explore their fear of age and losing the plot as they climb the fells to Codale Tarn above Grasmere.
Can play as One Act Play or as
THE GIFT & THE GLORY in tandem with:
Cast: 2 men in their 40’s
Introduces Tom and Jed, old friends from school, as they revisit a favourite fell-walking route around Grasmere, possibly for the last time.
Cast: 5 women. 1 man.
A comedy about loss and expectation, set in an ante natal class and a diy superstore on the ring road
Cast: 5 women, 6 men.
An adaptation with music of Melvyn Bragg’s epic novel of love, passion and deception set in 19C Cumbria. This is the true story of local beauty Mary Robinson and the conman who wooed and won her.
Cast: 3 woman. 5 men.
An adaptation of Mary Shelley’s horror story, which leads us to examine who our own monsters are today.
Cast: 7 women. 1 man.
An adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s compelling novel about the nature and lifelong effects of bullying.
Cast: 5 women 2 men.
An adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic novel which was a thinly disguised version of her own adventure to the continent as a young woman where she fell passionately and dangerously in love.
Cast: 7 women I man.
A moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartache that motherhood brings to three very different mothers.
Finalist John Whiting Award 2006
Cast: 5 men 3 women.
A new adaptation – with songs - of Daphne du Maurier’s classic evocative and chilling tale set in the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor – full of murder, mystery and malevolence.
Cast: 4 women, 3 men
When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child aunt and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years – of an absent dad, of her fascination with a neighbourhood “bad boy” – and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play
Cast: 3 women, 2 men, 1 child.
An adaptation of Anne Bronte’s ground-breaking novel which centres on the fate of Helen Huntingdon, forced out of her home by the brutality and infidelities of her drunken husband, and who proceeds to make a life for herself and her young son, Arthur.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men.
Based upon the life of Madeleine Smith – a middle class Glaswegian woman who scandalised and intrigued all levels of Victorian society when she was tried for the murder of her lover, and then acquitted on a verdict of Not Proven. The play explores the lives behind the façade of respectability and questions the abuse of power, where evil starts and who ultimately is responsible.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men.
An adaptation of the Victorian novel seen this time from the point of view of the main character, Lady Isabel Vane, who was punished beyond mercy by her original author, Mrs Henry Wood, for the crime of passion.
Cast: 2 women, 2 men.
Set in the early 1980’s, this play tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who comes to live with a mother and son by the ocean in the USA. It is a play about loss and bereavement. Upper juniors up.
Cast: 4 women.
Set in Australia this play with music tells a story of two stolen children, of the theft of their land, and of their culture. It is as story of Aboriginal black Australians, the first people of the “lucky country” and their relationship with the land, their mother. Juniors up.
Cast: 5 women.
Set in prison in South America. Four women are held without trial, the 5th guards them.
Cast: 2 women, 2 men.
An adaptation with music of John Steinbeck’s novel. Secondary upwards
Cast: 6 women.
A play with music set in a remote village in China between the 1927 revolution and Mao’s Land Reform. Seen from a young peasant girl, Puchao’s viewpoint, using stories old and new – we witness her and her village’s struggle to change as revolution brings an end to oppression with new freedom and new choices. Juniors up.
British Theatre Association Award Best Play for Young People 1988...
Cast: 6 women [5 Asian, 1 white]
Told over 16 years, this is the story of three generations of a Punjabi family living in Britain – the gaps they experience and the bridges they make – cultural, emotional and generational.
Finalist South London Playwriting Festival 1988
Cast: 5 women, 1 man.
A play about women and madness focusing on the life a Mancunian woman born at the turn of the 20th C, her relationships with her inmate friends and with her son.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men.
Set in rural Suffolk at the time of Captain Swing and the rural uprisings of the 1920’s and 30’s, this is the story of Maria Marten [famous as a victim] and her younger sister Ann, who made a different choice and met a different end. Juniors up.
Cast: 4 black women.
The play was inspired by the life of Sojourner Truth, the well known abolitionist and early feminist. It tells the story of her fictional great, great granddaughter, Lizzie Walker, and her transformation from child to adult activist in the southern states of America. Through the songs and stories of the women in her family Lizzie comes to understand the importance of her own past and her place in history. Young Audiences
Cast: 3 women, 1 man.
Set in the mid 19C, this play is about two working class northern families who win a lottery and move to a chartist farm in the south. Also using songs we trace what becomes of them when the dream is auctioned away. Upper juniors.
Cast: 2 men, 2 women.
The story of Mary Wollstencraft – a women of passion – and the woman who writes about her. Two different times, two different love stories. The same struggle.
.
Cast: 4 women.
Set in Kent in the summer of 1983, this play focuses on the women involved in the mining dispute
Cast: 4 women[3 black, 1 white].
A white sports photographer visits Cape Town, S. Africa and meets a family living in Crossroads Squatter camp. Using songs and stories we learn of their lives under apartheid. Juniors up.
British Theatre Association Award Best Play for Young People 1986.
.
Cast: 4 women [7 without doubling]
The effect on herself and her family when a single parent is sent to prison for a petty offence. Upper juniors-lower secondaries.
Two hander for women [aged 40& 20].
What happens when a daughter arrives home on mother’s day, pregnant. One set.
Keswick, 1940 – Britain is at war with Germany. Maggie’s life is under invasion too: Gran knitting for England, evacuee lodgers, helping with the war effort – and now a fund-raising concert party! Husband Rob is due home on RAF leave and best friend Peg has just learnt that she’s pregnant – but no such luck for Maggie and Rob.
Nostalgia, romance, laughter and tears all feature in this comedy full of live music, songs and dance from the war years
Cast: 2 women, 2 men. Black.
A sister piece to STAMPING, SHOUTING & SINGING HOME. It's summer 2005. Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand, sometimes the throat, and leads you through her landscape the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and the US Government did nothing. Go with her, as she shows you how her world and that of thousands of black American citizens changed for ever, the day the waters came. Age Advice: 13+
Writers Guild Award for Best Play for Children & Young People 2011
Cast: 2 women in their 50's
Using song and dark humour two women, bunking off from singing rehearsals, explore their fear of age and losing the plot as they climb the fells to Codale Tarn above Grasmere.
Can play as One Act Play or as
THE GIFT & THE GLORY in tandem with:
Cast: 2 men in their 40’s
Introduces Tom and Jed, old friends from school, as they revisit a favourite fell-walking route around Grasmere, possibly for the last time.
Cast: 5 women. 1 man.
A comedy about loss and expectation, set in an ante natal class and a diy superstore on the ring road
Cast: 5 women, 6 men.
An adaptation with music of Melvyn Bragg’s epic novel of love, passion and deception set in 19C Cumbria. This is the true story of local beauty Mary Robinson and the conman who wooed and won her.
Cast: 3 woman. 5 men.
An adaptation of Mary Shelley’s horror story, which leads us to examine who our own monsters are today.
Cast: 7 women. 1 man.
An adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s compelling novel about the nature and lifelong effects of bullying.
Cast: 5 women 2 men.
An adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic novel which was a thinly disguised version of her own adventure to the continent as a young woman where she fell passionately and dangerously in love.
Cast: 7 women I man.
A moving and powerful play about the joy and the heartache that motherhood brings to three very different mothers.
Finalist John Whiting Award 2006
Cast: 5 men 3 women.
A new adaptation – with songs - of Daphne du Maurier’s classic evocative and chilling tale set in the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor – full of murder, mystery and malevolence.
Cast: 4 women, 3 men
When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child aunt and their best friend. Now a young woman herself and facing the break-up of another relationship, Danielle takes stock of her childhood years – of an absent dad, of her fascination with a neighbourhood “bad boy” – and uncovers a story of everyday heroism and the strange tricks that memory can play
Cast: 3 women, 2 men, 1 child.
An adaptation of Anne Bronte’s ground-breaking novel which centres on the fate of Helen Huntingdon, forced out of her home by the brutality and infidelities of her drunken husband, and who proceeds to make a life for herself and her young son, Arthur.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men.
Based upon the life of Madeleine Smith – a middle class Glaswegian woman who scandalised and intrigued all levels of Victorian society when she was tried for the murder of her lover, and then acquitted on a verdict of Not Proven. The play explores the lives behind the façade of respectability and questions the abuse of power, where evil starts and who ultimately is responsible.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men.
An adaptation of the Victorian novel seen this time from the point of view of the main character, Lady Isabel Vane, who was punished beyond mercy by her original author, Mrs Henry Wood, for the crime of passion.
Cast: 2 women, 2 men.
Set in the early 1980’s, this play tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who comes to live with a mother and son by the ocean in the USA. It is a play about loss and bereavement. Upper juniors up.
Cast: 4 women.
Set in Australia this play with music tells a story of two stolen children, of the theft of their land, and of their culture. It is as story of Aboriginal black Australians, the first people of the “lucky country” and their relationship with the land, their mother. Juniors up.
Cast: 5 women.
Set in prison in South America. Four women are held without trial, the 5th guards them.
Cast: 2 women, 2 men.
An adaptation with music of John Steinbeck’s novel. Secondary upwards
Cast: 6 women.
A play with music set in a remote village in China between the 1927 revolution and Mao’s Land Reform. Seen from a young peasant girl, Puchao’s viewpoint, using stories old and new – we witness her and her village’s struggle to change as revolution brings an end to oppression with new freedom and new choices. Juniors up.
British Theatre Association Award Best Play for Young People 1988...
Cast: 6 women [5 Asian, 1 white]
Told over 16 years, this is the story of three generations of a Punjabi family living in Britain – the gaps they experience and the bridges they make – cultural, emotional and generational.
Finalist South London Playwriting Festival 1988
Cast: 5 women, 1 man.
A play about women and madness focusing on the life a Mancunian woman born at the turn of the 20th C, her relationships with her inmate friends and with her son.
Cast: 3 women, 2 men.
Set in rural Suffolk at the time of Captain Swing and the rural uprisings of the 1920’s and 30’s, this is the story of Maria Marten [famous as a victim] and her younger sister Ann, who made a different choice and met a different end. Juniors up.
Cast: 4 black women.
The play was inspired by the life of Sojourner Truth, the well known abolitionist and early feminist. It tells the story of her fictional great, great granddaughter, Lizzie Walker, and her transformation from child to adult activist in the southern states of America. Through the songs and stories of the women in her family Lizzie comes to understand the importance of her own past and her place in history. Young Audiences
Cast: 3 women, 1 man.
Set in the mid 19C, this play is about two working class northern families who win a lottery and move to a chartist farm in the south. Also using songs we trace what becomes of them when the dream is auctioned away. Upper juniors.
Cast: 2 men, 2 women.
The story of Mary Wollstencraft – a women of passion – and the woman who writes about her. Two different times, two different love stories. The same struggle.
.
Cast: 4 women.
Set in Kent in the summer of 1983, this play focuses on the women involved in the mining dispute
Cast: 4 women[3 black, 1 white].
A white sports photographer visits Cape Town, S. Africa and meets a family living in Crossroads Squatter camp. Using songs and stories we learn of their lives under apartheid. Juniors up.
British Theatre Association Award Best Play for Young People 1986.
.
Cast: 4 women [7 without doubling]
The effect on herself and her family when a single parent is sent to prison for a petty offence. Upper juniors-lower secondaries.
Two hander for women [aged 40& 20].
What happens when a daughter arrives home on mother’s day, pregnant. One set.