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WAITING ROOM

Set in the waiting room of a railway station, women of all types wait for their train or for the friends they are meeting. Interwoven into their stories is the drama of the married woman who realises…

Cast 9 female

WANTED - ONE BODY!

In the best Hammer horror tradition, the action takes place in a classic old dark house set amidst the rising flood waters and swirling mists on the edge of the lonely marshes. This is Greenacres, the…

Cast 5 male 4 female

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WAR IN HEAVEN, THE

A poetic monologue about an angel who dies on the day he is born. Aimlessly drifting through the afterlife, he loses all sense of personal control and destiny.

Cast 1 male

WATERS OF THE MOON

The dull routine of a modest and shabby private hotel in the West Country is broken by the arrival of unexpected and exciting guests whose car breaks down nearby. Helen Lancaster, a vivacious and attractive…

Cast 4 male 6 female

WAXWORKS

The manager of a wax museum is showing round a group of visitors, and points out a group of statues, who were famous in their day due to a scandal. After they have gone, the wax figures come to life and…

Cast 10 male 4 female

WE LOVE YOU, ARTHUR

Fiona Evans' We Love You Arthur tells the story of Julie and Lisa, two girls coming of age in a community being torn apart. Growing up is never easy, especially in Easington Colliery during 1984. Achieving…

Cast 1 male 3 female

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WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS

Three women of a ‘certain age’ gravitate to Paris. There’s Nancy, a retired headmistress determined to throw off the shackles; Anna, recently widowed – and free – after years of nursing a sick…

Cast 1 male 4 female

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WE'RE STRANGERS HERE

The play follows two couples who meet at a Spanish hotel on holiday in the 1960s. David Pearce has just been laid off his job as a draughtsman, and decides to blow some of his redundancy money on a foreign…

Cast 2 male 2 female

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WHEN DARKNESS FALLS

On a stormy night on the small island of Guernsey, a young paranormal expert joins a sceptical history teacher to record the first in a series of podcasts based on the island’s incredible folklore and…

Cast 2 male

Script available

WHITE CLOUD, THE

A touching fable, contrasting the pointless cruelty of war and its destruction of families, with the romantic legend of the glory of death in battle that we invent to pacify our children. Molnár wrote…

Cast 12 male 3 female

WICKIES: The Vanishing Men of Eilean…

December 26th, 1900. A replacement crew arrives on Eilean Mor, a lighthouse on the Flannan Islands far off the coast of the remote and desolate Outer Hebrides. When the crew step ashore they find the…

Cast 3 male

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WILD OATS

James McLure has transferred O'Keefe's restoration comedy to the American Old West, retaining the basic plot structure of the original play while ingeniously transferring the events and people to the…

Cast 23 male 6 female

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S LONG LOST FIRST…

Discovered in a treasure-filled parking lot in Leicester (next to a pile of bones that didn’t look that important), an ancient manuscript proves to be the long-lost first play written by none other…

Cast 3 male 3 female

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WISDOM OF EVE, THE

Adapted from the story by Mary Orr on which the film All About Eve and the hit musical Applause were based. This stage version is an engrossing and revealing inside story of life in New York's theatre…

Cast 5 male 5 female

WITCH, THE

A short one-act play with three characters, one of whom appears only briefly. A lady confronts an actress claiming that the actress has stolen her husband’s affections. The actress denies the claims…

Cast 3 female

WOLF, THE

A leading example of Molnár’s genius for dissecting human relationships, while concealing deep compassion beneath a surface of cynical mockery. The centre-piece is a brilliant dream sequence of Freudian…

Cast 2 male 2 female

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WOMAN IN BLACK, THE

Did Janet Clayton murder her husband? In spite of strong evidence and a summing up against her, the jury says 'No'. But the village of Framley says 'Yes', and when Janet returns after her acquittal she…

Cast 9 female

WOMAN IN WHITE, THE

On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a woman dressed from head to toe in white. She asks the way to London and no sooner has Walter directed her than he is overtaken by a carriage…

Cast 9 male 5 female

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WOMAN WHO COOKED HER HUSBAND, THE

Kenneth and Hilary have been married nearly twenty years, but as middle age approaches, Ken finds himself in the arms of another woman. At first, Laura appears to be everything that is missing from Ken's…

Cast 1 male 2 female

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS

The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills, and the doomed relationship of Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw is brilliantly brought to life in Jane Thornton’s new stage adaptation of…

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