THEATRE PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (AND OTHERS…)
BABBLE!
a play for young people, about young people, their carers, and their ghosts. Commissioned by Proteus Theatre Company
PRODUCTIONS: Proteus Theatre Company, (November / December 1998)

MAGICAL POWERS (for Twenty-four Hours)
Children’s play based on the Faust legend in which two sisters find themselves magically drawn to wasteland beneath a flyover and are offered Magical Powers - at a price...    Minimum cast: 5   With music and giant puppets.
PRODUCTIONS: Common Stock (1983)  Bubble Theatre Co. (1986)

THE MISSING ELEMENT
Children’s play, in which three Elements - Earth, Fire and Water - take on human form and appear in an urban park to search for their missing companion, Air.
Minimum cast 5. Original Music by Andrew Dodge
PRODUCTIONS: Common Stock (1984)

ZEEMA’S WORDS
A Drama-in-Education programme to support Literacy teaching in Reception classes, featuring Zeema Zora from the planet Lettera, who crash-lands on Earth with a special Mission.   Cast of two. Two visits
PRODUCTIONS: T’n’T TiE Co. (1993)

WHITEGHOSTS
Play for Junior Schools.Two Bristol teenagers, and two African slaves from 200 years earlier find their lives intersecting in the basement of a derelict riverside building.  2m 2f   Published 1987 by Macmillan Limited
PRODUCTIONS: Theatre Centre (London) (1984)

INSIDE THE VOLCANO
Part of a whole-day programme about Change, the play is set in El Salvador and follows a family forced to flee their village and move to the city after their father is shot by the Army.  3m 2f
PRODUCTIONS: Duke’s Playhouse (Lancaster) TiE team (1983)

PLAGUE OF GOD
In 17th. century England, torn by Civil War, two young people are caught up in the tragedy and excitement of the violent changes all around them.  3f 3m
PRODUCTIONS: Acorn (Nottinghamshire College of Performing Arts Youth Theatre) (1992) Roundabout TIE Co.(Nottingham) (1992)

MAPPING THE STARS
Part of a whole-day programme about Freedom. Amy, an amateur astronomer, shuts herself away with star-maps and telescope, but is visited by two mysterious young people.   2f 1m  Original Music by Jack Davies.
PRODUCTIONS: Harlow Theatrevan (1988)

THE FERRY
Part of a whole-day programme about History, the play is set on a North Sea Ferry used by the Government as a detention centre for refugees. History keeps appearing in the present.  2f 2m (1f 1m are non-white)
PRODUCTIONS: Cockpit TiE Team (1987)

TRANSFORMER DAY
In a run-down port about to undergo renewal, a group of young people plan a spectacular stunt for Transformer Day, a nationwide day of charity fund-raising.
25 characters.
BASEMENT BARGAINS
In a ruined German city immediately after World War II, a group of orphaned young people living in a bombed-out school make a dangerous bargain with the occupying Army.
12 characters
PUBLICATION: John Murray Ltd.(1990) - “Themescripts” series for secondary schools.

THEATRE FOR ADULTS / MIXED-AGE AUDIENCES
ANOTHER PART OF THE RIVER
Polish refugee Jan Wali comes to Britain in 1945 and we follow his story into the new Millenium.
Devised by the Elders Theatre Company and co-written with them
PRODUCTIONS: The Elders, (Over-50’s Community Drama Group of Proteus Theatre Co.)

THE DEVIL ON THE HEATH
Comedy set in the 1950’s. Relations between an isolated Fenland village and a nearby US Air Force base turn blackly comic when an item of military hardware goes missing.
3f 4m (2m with doubling) Musical arrangements by Andrew Dodge.
PRODUCTIONS: Perspectives Theatre Co(1981)   Combination - New Albany Empire (1982)  Bard College of Drama and Dance New York (1982) Eastern Angles Theatre Co.(1986/7)

THE WASSAILING TREE
Christmas Mummer’s Play, featuring Goodwife Putapon, husband Joseph,and their baby. Also a talking Tree, and a Child without a name.
Minimum cast: 3 Musical arrangements: Andrew Dodge/John O’Mahoney
PRODUCTIONS: First-Footers (Peterborough) (1983)

THE GOLDEN METEOR
Loosely based on a Jules Verne story, a vast solid gold asteroid appears at Christmas over the Lancashire countryside at the turn of the century, triggering a scramble of claims to it.
3m 3f Original Music by Andrew Dodge
PRODUCTIONS: Pitprop Theatre Co.(1981)
                                            
MR.MINCHIP’S UTOPIA                
Comic melodrama about the growth of a town in Victorian and Edwardian times, and the effect of Utopian rhetoric on its citizens. Enchanting Scenes and Music - The Spirit Uplifted!
5f 4m (3f 2m with doubling) With shadow-play and lantern-slides.
Musical arrangements: Andrew Dodge/Paul Kleiman/John O’Mahoney
PRODUCTIONS: Perspectives Theatre Co. (1980)
                                                
WAITING FOR THE RAINBOW
The great Fenland floods of 1947 push local people and outsiders, including a Welsh land-army girl and a German POW,  into close contact as they fight to control the rising waters.
3f 3m (3f 2m with doubling) Original music by Andrew Dodge.
PRODUCTIONS: Perspectives Theatre Co. (1982)

THE SPIRIT OF TRUE CHRISTMAS
Mummer’s play, with Clown(accident-prone), Goodwife Putapon and husband Joseph, the Hawker (a tradesman) and Baron Beggarly (an elected representative) who celebrate Christmas.
Minimum cast: 3  Musical arrangements by John O’Mahoney.
PRODUCTIONS: First-Footers (Peterborough) (1983)

THE LAST ROYAL or EAST OF BARKING CREEK
When a “Living Museum” is created in London’s Queen Mary dock, last of the Royal Group of docks to be redeveloped, a local teenager takes desperate steps to preserve her community.
2f 2m  Original music by Andrew Dodge
PRODUCTIONS: Theatre Venture (1985)

A STATE OF HEALTH
At the last-ever annual fête at Midmarsh General Hospital, a disgruntled cleaner takes bizarre revenge on the Consultant who is about to buy the institution for his own fell purposes.
3f 2m (3f 1m with doubling)  Original music by Simon Deacon
PRODUCTIONS: Perspectives Theatre Co. (1986)