| Page: P 48 |
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Two Plays |
by ANGELA LANYON
| The Half Crown Boy | |
| Cast: | 19 ( 11m, 8 f + soldiers, apprentices, girls, revellers, etc. ). |
| Suggested Age Range: | 10 to 15 |
| Approx. Running Time: | 80 minutes [ + interval]. |
| Music: | Familiar folk tunes and Music Hall songs. |
| Set: | Time 1854. Royal Worcester Porcelain Works; The interior of a working man's house; Common land; the Malvern Hills. Suggested as open plan - small inset scenes played side stage; cast can move set. |
| Synopsis: | David Bates is taken by his father to sign articles of
apprenticeship as a painter at the Royal Worcester factory. He makes and loses
friends, his girl friend dies of T.B., he gains skills and finally sets his
sights on becoming a landscape painter. [Based on the true story of David Bates who went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy]. |
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| Where Is Florrie? or Who Put the Body in the Prittlewell Brook? |
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| Cast: | 10 ( 6 m, 4 f + crowd). |
| Suggested Age Range: | 8 to 13. |
| Approx. Running Time: | 45 minutes. |
| Music: | Folk songs and Music Hall tunes. |
| Set: | Open plan. Southend Pier; London Dockland; A police station; A country lane; The Old Bailey. Cast move props andf furntiture as part of the action. |
| Synopsis: | OTT melodrama based on a murder in Southend in Victorian days. Florrie Dennis is lured by train from London by the handsome, much-married docker, James Read. Her sister, suspicious from the first, sends him a telegram causing him to desert his wife and eight children, rob the dockyard fund and flee to his mistress in the country and illegitimate daughter, Rosebud. But Florrie's body is found in the woods, Read is identified by the rose bud left at her side and justice is done! |
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| Script: | Code B | |
| Performance Rights: The Half Crown Boy |
Code Z |
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| Performance Rights: Where Is Florrie? |
Code Z | |
| Licence to Copy:The Half Crown Boy | Code Z | |
| Licence to Copy: Where Is Florrie | Code Z | |
ISBN 978 1 872475 99 8
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