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You can freely download and print the first half of the following scripts. You do not have permission to copy or perform any of them without the appropriate licence, obtainable from The Playwrights Publishing Company. If you do, you may be liable to legal action and local publicity.
"Treseders Seeds" Drama by Christine Woolf  6 females  ISBN 1-873130-21-X
                              Books £4 each  Performance Licence £25 per night
Set in 1843 on board the saling ship, The Westminster, bound for New Zealand, we see the story of four women from different backgrounds travelling from their native West Country in England to start a new life.  Their challenge is symbolised by the seeds that one one of them carries to plant in the new country.  This play was the winner of the 2001 National UK Womens Institute Play Writing Competition and was chosen from sixty one entries
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"Undercoats"  Black comedy by Roger Pinkham  3m & 3f  ISBN 1-873130-00-7
                     Books £4 each.   Performance Licence £25 per night
A black comedy of life in a Welsh household - Dad's mad on DIY, mum wants to be an opera singer, son's a vandal and daughter's looking for Mr Right. 
Performed at the Croydon Warehouse by Equity South & east, this bizarre view of life and death has many home truths at its centre and will have you laughing all evening
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"The Story of Peter Grimes"  Drama by Andrew Beattie flexible cast ISBN 1-87313015-5
                                               Books £4 each  Performance Licence £25 per night
Set in the harsh East Anglian winter, the play centres on a fisherman, Peter Grimes, a violent but lonely figure, shunned by the community, who suspect him of murdering two apprentice boys.  The action moves from seashore to alehouse culminating in a dramatic chase and ending
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"Cathy's Kitchen"  Comedy drama by Lynn Howes 3 females ISBN 1-873130-23-6
                                Books £4 each  Performance Licence £25 per night
Set in the back of a bakery, we see, with sharp and witty dialogue, the lives of three women - a young one who is working there, a hugely pregnant one who used to work there and Cathy herself, the owner, who shocks the others with a revelation from her past
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