Aurora Metro Books, 2003

Aurora Metro Books

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Holly has to spend New Year with the grumpiest pair of farmers who ever ploughed a field. Luckily, she meets a faery called Tom, whose magic and mischief brighten up her days and transform her stay in a real adventure. 'A show...

Aurora Metro Books, 2002

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A play about overcoming fear, where the subconscious world is represented through imagery and movement. The play begins with a startling dream sequence and then segues into the drawing-room world of a Jane Austen novel, before moving...

Aurora Metro Books, 2002

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Cinderella is a play about a journey from darkness to light, from sickness to health. Everyone in the play is under the influence of some kind of loss, and the play explores these feelings and the sometimes painful route one must take...

Aurora Metro Books, 2001

Aurora Metro Books

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Produced by companies in Britain and Ireland, the play offers a contemporary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring father/daughter relationships and the need for independence. For 12 years and over...

Aurora Metro Books, 2005

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Finalist in the Helen Hayes Awards, USA. The King is dead and the Green Kingdom is in turmoil. Only Merlin knows that the future lies in the hands of young Arthur. Taken away from the only home he's known, Arthur slumbers in Merlin's Cave...

Aurora Metro Books, 2013

Aurora Metro Books

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Written for two theatres located in German and Welsh mining towns, Missing is distantly inspired by the Grimm’s fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel but more immediately by the question, “What does it mean nowadays to grow up poor...

Aurora Metro Books, 2013

Aurora Metro Books

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Written for Belfast based Cahoots, NI, Nivelli’s War is set in Germany in the aftermath of World War II where displaced people are desperately trying to return home to find their loved ones. Six-year-old Ernst is an evacuee who finds...

Aurora Metro Books, 2013

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (0), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Pirates! is a bi-national co-commission which Way wrote for theatres in the London and the Washington, DC, suburbs. The protagonist Jim is an eight year old who is fascinated by 18th-century pirate lore. He is also on the brink of being...

Aurora Metro Books, 2001

Aurora Metro Books

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Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Commissioned by Polka Theatre and nominated for TMA's Best Children's Play award, this is a poetic yet gritty piece exploring the trials of the young Evelyn Glennie to become a percussionist despite her profound deafness. It provides...

Aurora Metro Books, 2001

Aurora Metro Books

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Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Commissioned by Unicorn Theatre for Children and The Place, this play is based on Hans Christian Andersen's well-known tale The Red Shoes. It uses dance, music and drama to explore the inner world of a traumatised child fleeing war...

Aurora Metro Books, 2008

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (14), Female (3), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...A spectacular play for everyone above the age of six which will entertain adults and children alike. This is a seasonal play with a difference – being set in medieval Baghdad there is no mention of Xmas. There is however plenty...

Aurora Metro Books, 2002

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Sleeping Beauty is driven by the notion of duality. Everything and everyone in the play has a complementary aspect; King and Queen, castle and forest, bright witch and dark witch. Gryff, half-dragon, half-human is the physical embodiment...

Aurora Metro Books, 2005

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A group of troublesome actors arrive in a modern city. They tell the story of Ke Xin, princess of the Isle of Joy, who is always obedient until the day the sea brings to her island home a strange sailor, a raving fool without a memory...

Aurora Metro Books, 2008

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (14), Female (7), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...A comedy for all the family that blends the Brothers Grimm folk tale with elements of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Once upon a time there was a boy called Dummling and everyone believed he was stupid just because of his...

Aurora Metro Books, 1998

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (14), Female (6), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...An imaginative retelling of a classical myth with enormous contemporary relevance. Telemachus is an angry and awkward adolescent searching west and west again to the edge of the world for his absent father...

Aurora Metro Books, 2008

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (18), Female (3), Male (12), Unassigned (3)

...A play with songs for all the family, suitable for both Christmas and all year round. Jonas, a handsome young soldier, discovers treasure beyond his wildest dreams when he finds a tinderbox which gives him power beyond...