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Andy Arnold

ANDY ARNOLD

  
Nationality:    British
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Andy Arnold's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Andy Arnold's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ali the Magic Elf         Beowulf         Blood and Water         Dante's Inferno         End Of Part 1, The         Hansel And Gretel         Little Mermaid, The         Monaciello         Nutcracker Suite         Running on the Cracks         Selfish Giant, The         Spend A Penny         Water Babies, The
Ali the Magic Elf

Synopsis:
Christmas Eve panic at the North Pole - none of the childrens' letters have been answered

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
filmed live show at Tron Theatre, Glasgow     Dec 2020

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Beowulf

Synopsis:
restores to life an anglo-Saxon epic - a lind of brief authentic Lord of the Rings - full of contemporary significance and powerful symbolism

Notes:
devised by Andy Arnold from the translation by Seamus Heaney

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  30 actors

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 0252

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Blood and Water

Synopsis:
A number of people on a leaking raft hoping to find a better life

Notes:
Original Playwright - Vladimir Vladimrovich Mayakowsky

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XVI (1996) Page 0766

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Dante's Inferno

Synopsis:
free adaptation of a tale that takes the audience to hell and back with the aide of related texts from various authors

Notes:
from various writing

1st Produced:

Organisations:
RSaMD

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 0339

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End Of Part 1, The

Synopsis:
Marie Curie gives tango lessons. Albert Einstein is a clown. Death arrives

Notes:
Based on the play "Uranium 235" (1940) by Ewan MacColl

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XIX (1999) Page 1604

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Hansel And Gretel

Synopsis:
It's a spooky play, but not excessively frightening. the well realised and atmosphEric locations -which are majestically realised given the tight confines of the stage - might strike fear into young hearts, but the lead characters are bold and fearless, and the adventure becomes less sinister when we're with them.
Dave Pollock, Financial Times

Notes:
from the Brothers Grimm

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 1548

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Little Mermaid, The

Synopsis:
55 mins of the little mermaid who falls for a human prince and trades in her voice for a pair of legs to pursue him with.

Notes:
from Hans Christian Andersen

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Seasonal

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIV (2004) Page 1780

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Monaciello

Synopsis:
Staged in a network of underground spaces beneath the city of Naples, this devised piece will employ Italian and Scottish actors and focus on the period when the city's citizens took refuge during the bombing raids of the Second World War.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Naples Theatre Festival Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
site specific

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Nutcracker Suite

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol V (1985) Page 1063

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Running on the Cracks

Running on the Cracks
Run. Keep running. You're doing the right thing. Lay low. Head down. Don't look back. Just keep running. And whatever you do, don't tread on the cracks. Leo's world has been turned upside down. Her parents are gone and her bird-loving uncle is getting too close for comfort. She is only sure of one thing, she must get out. In a desperate bid to find the grandparents she never knew, Leo jumps on a train to Glasgow, penniless and stealing food to survive. Will she track down her grandparents, or will her uncle get to her first?

Notes:
Adapted for the stage from the novel by the internationally acclaimed writer Julia Donaldson (the Gruffalo), this is a new, fast moving play about runaways, identity, survival and how friendships can develop in the strangest situations.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Pilot Theatre and the Tron Theatre Compan

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
-

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Selfish Giant, The

Synopsis:
Giant's selfishness brings unending winter into his garden, and then -

Notes:
from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Christmas Show

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1700

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Spend A Penny

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Series of short plays based on an idea by Andy Arnold

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 1192

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Water Babies, The

Synopsis:
about a brutally put upon chimney sweep

Notes:
from the book by Charles Kingsley

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Youth theatre

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVII (2007) Page 1555

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