Plays by Length - SCDA Edinburgh District

535 Pages·2016·1.99 MB·English

SCDA Scripts - Listed by Play Lengths Further details available from SCDA Librarian at [email protected]
PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
15315
Aladdin or Love Will Find Out The Way Clinton-Baddeley VC 7 to 9 to 7 15425
Book of US, The Details missing 14991
Bouncing Back Young Gail . . . A group of women returning to 3 10 15358
netball . . . "An entertaining and
moving reminder of our ability to
boiunce back, make new friends and
achieve new goals"
Conscience Of Sergeant Cluff, The Sands Leslie plus sheepdog 4or5 4or3 12487
Dyspeptics, The Higginbotham Robert 1 1 14219
Just Hear My Voice Rose, Caitlin Geoffrey Whitworth Comp 2014 0to3 4to1 13547
3 are aspects of girl's character but
could be played by males.
Master Class Pownall David An anteroom in the Kremlin. Stalin 4 0 14384
discussing with Shostakovitch and
Prokofiev their place in Soviet Society
as artists
Combination All That Fall Becket Samuel 6 3 1 1 182
Combination Emperor's New Clothes ,The Umansky Kaye Many Many 2497
Combination Good Time Boys ,The Good-Time Boys Oram Hiawin curtain up series Many Many 1933
Combination Interpreters Harwood Ronald A Fantasia on English and Russian 4 2 14309
themes. Requires lead actor to be able
to convince audidience he is fluent in
Russian.
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Combination New Connections- New Plays For Young Various generic title: New Connections- New Many Many 1895
Plays For Young People
- MISSING - TO QMU?
1 Asleep Under The Dark Earth by
Sian Evans m4 f5
2 Chrysalis by David Harrowed m8 f11
3 Cuba by Liz Lochhead m4 f14
4 Dog House by Gina Moxley
5 Eclipse by Simon Armitage
6 The Golden Door by David Ashton
7 In The Sweat by Naomi Wallace &
Bruce McLeod 8
Combination Their Town Blandford Steven short fulll length / long one-act. 16 6toM 9 to 34 14374
scenes plus epilogue.
Ironic reference to Wilder's Our Town.
Set on Election Day 1997. Two
teenagers in modern Britain move
south to find work.
Much doubling
Combination Thomas Tallis Swale Jessica A portrait of the life of Britain's most 3 1 15115
successful composers set against the
tumultuous politcal backdrop of the
renaisance.
Plus choir
Combination Waiting Bayliss & Sharp plays for 30 children. Publication Many Many 2808
date n/k.
Combination Will Shakespeare Save The King Nimmo Paul 10 characters - 3 principals NGS NGS 2832
in compilation with Will Shakespeare
Save Us
Combination Will Shakespeare Save Us Nimmo Paul in compilation with Will Shakespeare NGS NGS 2833
Save The King
10 characters - 3 principals
Full All For Love Dryden John 7 4 0 2 14247
Full Boeing Boeing Boeing-Boeing Camoletti Marc IMPORTANT: also 5 copies published 2 4 15103
by Evans in 1967 but different names
for characters
Full Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Williams Tennessee also in numerous collections in Authors 7 4 3# 12825
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Towns McGillivray David / Zerlin Walter J The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate 3 6 4556
Townswomens Guild series
doubling
Full Fiddlers Three - Cut And Dried / We Don Chappell Eric generic title Fiddlers Three - classed 5 2 4581
as Full Length
Self-contained one-acts but can be
performed together as Full Length
Full Witch Of Evil Wood, The - previously Be Hills Richard Principals 16 Man Many 1171
previously Beauty and The Beast
Full 100 Petterle Diene Monaghan Neil & H 3 2 2005
Full 1066 And All That Arkell Reginald Man Many 11042
Full 13 Rue De L'Amour - Thirteen Rue De Green Mawby & Fielbert Ed 7 3 6266
Full 27 Twenty Seven Morgan Abi 3 5 6858
Full 2nd May 1997 - second May Thorne Jack 4 2 5956
Full 4000 Days Four Thousand Days Quilter Peter Michael has been in a coma for three 2 1 15093
weeks. Watching over him in hospital
is his bitter mother and his dull but
weel-meaning partner. They are united
in their grief and in their intense dislike
of each other.
Full 46 Beacon [Forty Six Beacon] Rosenfield Bill Boston July 1970. . . .about two gay 2 15360
lives which intersect at crossroads
where one savours his differences and
the oter wishes to be part of the
mainstream.
Full 48-98 (in Plays Two) River Sol B 6 1 2150
Full 55 days Fifty Five Days Brenton Howard King Charles 1st Man Many 10387
Full 84 Charing Cross Road Hanff Helene adapted for stgae by James Roose- 3 5 4303
Evans
Full 9.45 Davis Owen / Collins Sewell 10 5 5502
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full A Hard Rain Bradfield Jon & Hooper Martin doubling for 2 actors 6 0 13093
set just before Stonewall riots in 1969
Full A Murder Is Announced Christie Agatha Adapted for the stage by Leslie Darbon 5 7 14913
Full A Tale of Two Cities Burton Brian J Adapted from the novel by Charles Man Many 14979
Dickens
Full Abanazar's Revenge Hornby Ian 16 Principals plus chorus Man Many Many Many 10319
Full Abanazer's Revenge Hornby Ian Prin 17 Man Many 1205
Full Abandonment Atkinson Kate 2 5 91
Full Abbey Laird,The Roxburgh R A 5 0 2191
Full Abducting Diana Fo Dario adapted by Stephen Stenning 5 2 3762
Full Abelard & Heloise Millar Ronald 12 9 1629
Full Abigail Harris R C 3 5 0 0 1115
Full Abigail's Party Leigh Mike 2 3 1430
Full Abominable Snowman,The Brooke Harold & Bannerman Kay 6 4 364
Full About Alice Laurence Charles 2 2 15149
Full Abraham Lincoln Drinkwater John also in collections An Antology Of Man 4 3763
Modern Drama
Full Abraham Lincoln Drinkwater John 38 males Man 4 757
Full Absent Friends Ayckbourn Alan 3 3 107
Full Absurd Person Singular Ayckbourn Alan 3 3 108
Full AC/DC AC / DC Williams Heathcoate exploration of interlocking psychic 3 2 15014
vibrations of group of heads.
Full Acacia Avenue Constanduros Mabel & Dennis 4 5 570
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full Accent On Youth Raphelson Samson When struggling playwright in fifties 6 2 15274
abandons writing and dismisses
secretary , she declares love for him.
The problem of making life fit theatre is
relieved.
Full Accidental Death Of An Anarchist Fo Dario Based on true story: Anarchist railway 5 1 14257
worker Giuseppe Pinelli 'fell' from
window in Italian Police HQ. Adapted
by Gavin Richards from a farce by
Dario Fo
Full According to the Doctor Evans E Eynon Publication date n/k. 5 5 802
Full According to the Evidence Douglas Felicity & Cecil Henry Publication date n/k. 7 2 739
Full Accrington Pals,The Whelan Peter 5 5 2618
Full Accusers,The Forman J 0 9 876
Full Ace, King, Queen Carr Dorothy Publication date n/k. 4 2 440
Full Acte Durrell Lawrence based on Greek drama Man Many 15013
Full Action Replay Weldon Fay 3 3 2595
Full Actually Moving Graham Joe 1 1 4406
Full Ada Wodderspoon Ould Herman 2 4 1947
Full Adam And Eva Bolton Guy and Middleton George 6 4 13118
Full Adam Bede Beevers Geoffrey based on George Elliot novel Man 3+ 191
Full Adam's Apple Hunter N C 8 3 1270
Full Adam's Ark Hodgson Harold short full length 10 5 3 2 13125
Full Adams,The Langley & Knight 2 4 1401
Full Adbul Moncrieff Martha Scott extra F. Publication date n/k. 3 3 1677
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full Adding Machine ,The Rice Elmer opening monologue good for drama Man Many 3764
student
Full Adelphi aka The Brothers Terence translated by Roscoe Mongan 10 3 14498
in AUTHORS Comedies Of Terence.
Publication date n/k
Full Admirable Crichton,The Barrie J M 10 principals Man Many 140
5 H & S 1 SF
Full Admiral Peters Jacobs W W 2 1 1296
Full Admirals All Hay Ian & King-Hall Stephen Man 5 1142
Full Adrenalin - Heart Fitch Georgia Man 1 853
Full Advancement of Mr Simpkin ,The Last Jack 5 5 1409
Full Advantage Of Being Shy,The Hoffman Phoebe 1 5 1181
Full Adventure Of Lady Ursula, The Hope Anthony Man 3 12584
Full Adventure Story Rattigan Terence 12 5 2082
Full Adventurers - A Pageant Play Barne Kitty Man Many 13124
Full Adventures of a Bear Called Paddington Bond Michael & Bradley Alfred 17 Characters Man 263
Full Adventures Of A Bear Called Paddington Bradley Alfred & Bond Michael one 1974, another undated 11 6 321
Full Adventures of Awful Knawful ,The Flannery P & Ford Mick Characters 19+ Man Many Many Many 866
Full Adventures of Beatrix Potter And Her Fri Robinette Joseph Man Many 2173
Full Adventures Of Gervase Beckett, The Cheeseman Peter 10 3 12484
Full Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Francis Matthew adapted from book by Mark Twain Man 8 897
Full Adventures Of Mr Pickwick The Hinds Anthony / Dickens Charles including some doubling female parts 0 0 6 7 1174
Full Adventures of Tom Sawyer,The Chorpenning C B (from Clemens Publication date n/k. Man 6 505
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full Advenures Of Beatrix Potter And Her Frie Robinette Joseph music and lyrics Evelyn Swendson Man Many Many Many 2172
Full Advertising April Farjeon Herbert & Horsnell Horac 6 6 820
Full Aesop's Fables Terson Peter 7 4 2437
Full Aesop's Fables -The Legend Begins Ferguson Alistair 8 Principals plus crowd Man Many 8038
Full Aesop's Falables: A Rock Musical Graczyk Ed lyrics by Marty Conine & Ed Graczyk 4 13 15275
music by Shirley Hansen (but not held.)
Full Affair, The Millar Ronald Based on the novel by C.P. Snow Man 2 1632
Full Affairs of State Verneuil Louis 3 3 2514
Full African Millionaire Wallace Edgar plus extras 10 3 13129
Full After Marshall Stewart SCDA SS comp 2 4 0 0 1544
Full After Aida Mitchell Julian After the irumphs of Aida and 14250
Requiem………...the composer Verdi
has retired to the country.two
friends………….manage to ;persuade
him to collaborate……….on a new
work, Othello
Full After All Van Druten John also in collections 5 7 15157
Full After Haggerty Mercer David Doubling Possible 9 5 15023
Full After Mary Rose Jones D based on JM Barrie's Mary Rose 4 2 4332
Full After Midnight Wyngate 1 1 2732
Full After Mrs Rochester Teale Polly 2 6 2434
Full After My Fashion Morgan Diana 2 8 1685
Full After October Ackland Rodney also in collections - Famous Plays of 5 6 3102
Today 1935 - 1936
Full After October Ackland Rodney Publication date n/k. 5 6 2
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full After September Chinn Jimmie Publication date n/k. 1 10 501
Full After The Ball Is Over Home William Douglas 7 5 1199
Full After the Fall Miller Arthur Characters 20 + Ex Man Many 1635
Full After The Hours Wilde D Publication date n/k. 3 3 2638
Full After The Rain Bowen John Cecil Sinclair estate 9 3 0 0 301
Full After The Theatre Morton & Traill Publication date n/k. 2 2 1713
Full After You With The Milk Travers Ben 3 2 2472
Full After You've Gone Stocks Bryan 2 5 2363
Full Afterglow Rubinstein H F 3 2 2193
Full Agamemnon Aeschylus (adpt Jeffreys Alan) Publication date n/k. 6 2 22
Full Agamemnon, The Murray Gilbert plus chorus 4 2 12652
original work by Aeschylus
Full Agatha Crusty And The Mighty Midget M Weale Edith . . . . . .a dinner party to celebrate ten 5 6 15220
years of Mighty Midehget Vacuum
Cleaners . . . . Toadd spice to the
evening they decide to make a murder
mysery dinner .. . . . One of the guests
is murdered . . . ... then another. . . . .
Full Agatha Crusty And Tne Village Hall Murd Webb Derek When Agatha's sister-in-law invites her 5 7 15214
to spend a few days in the village of
Chortelby, it's not long before she gets
caught up in a series of murders which
seem directed at members of the Alll
Saints Village Hall committee.
Full Agatha's Heaven Stewer Jan 4 5 13128
Full Age of Indiscretion,The Berryman Noel 3 4 212
Full Age of Youth,The Maltby H F & Wynn Fredi 5 6 1518
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full Agnes of God Pielmeier John Publication date n/k 0 3 2014
Full A-hunting We Will Go A Hunting We Wil Barron Ray adaptation/translation Feydeau's 6 3 1 0 151
'Monnem Chasse'
Full Aida Verdi Man Many Many Many 2511
Full Air On A Shoestring & Penny Plain Flanders & Swann musical lyrics only Man Many 864
Full Airswimming Jones Charlotte 0 2 15092
Full Akhnaton Christie Agatha Man Many 511
Full Akin To Love Simmons Peggy 3 7 2287
Full Aladdin Swan David 13 Principals Man Many 2393
Full Aladdin Scougall Lillias Characters 9+ Chorus Man Many 2240
Full Aladdin Robbins Norman 11 plus chorus Man Many 2159
Full Aladdin Wakefield C & Edgar K Prin 10+ Man Many 2542
Full Aladdin Morley John 19 Principals Man Many 1690
Full Aladdin Graham Joe 10 principals Man Many 4378
Full Aladdin Scougall Lillias Typescript # # # # 3839
10 Characters
Full Aladdin Sperinck Jim Prin 15 Man Many 2339
Full Aladdin Hills Richard Prin 16 Man Many 1170
Full Aladdin Hawcroft Andrew doubling possible Man Many 3913
Full Aladdin Heather Bob & Lamb Roger Prin 13 Man Many 1150
Full Aladdin Nicol Ron Man Many 14697
Full Aladdin Alexander Paul Prin 18 Man Many 38
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PlayLength TITLE AUTHOR Notes M F B G Ref
Full Aladdin Adams & Carter 13 Principals Man Many 14
Full Aladdin Dawson Keith Publication date n/k. 674
Full Aladdin Crocker & Gilder 14 Principals Man Many 634
Full Aladdin Cregan David & Protheroe Brian 15 Characters Man Many 629
Full Aladdin Caddy Leonard Principals 14. Publication date n/k Man Many 409
ESTIMATED 1990s
Full Aladdin Bright Tom 9 Principals plus chorus. Publication Man Many Many Many 10320
date n/k
Full Aladdin Denys Chris & Harris Chris Characters 10 + Chorus Man Many 707
Full Aladdin (smaller cast version) Crocker John Prin 10 + chorus (with orig music & Man Many 635
lyrics Crocker J & Gilder Eric)
Full Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp Parr Ronald 12 Principals Man Many 1964
Full Aladdin of Shangri…… Martin James Principals 14 Characters 16+chorus Man Many 1549
Full Aladdin, A Family Musical Wood David Prin 15 Man Many 2693
Full Aladdin's Cave Jennings Gertrude 4 5++ 1317
Full Aladin Dawson Keith Many Many 675
Full Alan & the Kings Daughters Murdoch Helen & McCracken Eth 10or 8/9 1730
Full Alan And The King's Daughters Murdoch Helen plus chorus 10 8 10326
Full Alarms and Excursions Frayn Michael also in authors - as generic title for 8 2 2 904
Frayn plays
Full Albatross 3rd And Main Albatross Third Eden Simon David Gene, a former lobster fishermnan and 3 0 15096
General Store proprietor, is down on
his luck big time. When Spider walks
into the store with a golden lottery
ticket in the form of a rare and valuable
dead bird, Gene has a choice to make.
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