The Bridge Drama by Rosemary Kyarimpa  6f & 5m + extras  ISBN No:  1873130384
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The bridge is set in a remote African village, dominated by traditional beliefs and under the rule of Kikoombe, a traditional chief. The play opens with anxiety-ridden villagers, disturbed by the news that a European doctor is coming to work in their area.  The village witchdoctor's powers are at stake and a magical divination reveals that the ancestors' spirits are angered by a looming foreign disaster.  Urgent action must be taken to forestall the wrath of the spirits and a pact is sealed - the appeasement will be done by marrying off a 13yr old black girl to the new white doctor - however there are problems that they did not envisage ...
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"Siding 37"   Drama by Georgina Lewis  3f & 2m  ISBN 1-873130-17-1
                      Books £4.00 each   performing rights £25 per night
It is 21st September 1918.  There has been a communist revolution in Russia and most people believe that the whole of the Russian royal family have been assassinated.  However there are rumours spreading that one of them may have survived and if this is so it would be a great threat to the New Order.  In this atmosphere we see an office in the town of Perm in the Urals near to a railway siding where a doctor has been called to treat a female with gunshot wounds - she tells the doctor an amazing story which, if true, would make her a very important symbol to those who still support the royal dynasty.
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In The Kitchen At Parties  Comedy by Susan Jevons 3f & 4m  ISBN 1873130592
                                          Performance/ Copying Rights £25 per performance
Observant humour showing the strange kind of people who gather in the kitchen when the party is in full swing.  Recently perormed to great acclaim at the Bradford Festival.
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The Happiness Tree  Comedy by Tony Breeze  Group Doubling ISBN 1872758193
                                 Books £4  Performance/Copying rights £25 per performance
The people of Arcadia are very poor but are willing to put up with their humdrum existence until one day a tree is discovered that bears a fruit which will change their lives.  The fruit makes everyone so happy that they forget their mundane lives, leading to social chaos.  The authorities fight to prevent its spread, trying everything, they make its possession illegal, but in the end are left with no alternative - so they legalise it and tax it
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