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Are We Being Silly?
Synopsis:
Justin is thirty-seven years late handing in his homework and Teacher turns up wanting it
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Childrens play
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Big Wow Small Wonder
Synopsis:
Justin is so small he can swim with goldfish. Bother Boots Bradley wants to have him and keep him as a pet. Justin thinks his father is the Big Wow. When he finds out that he is not he goes in search of him
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Half Moon Theatre, London
15 Jan 2016
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Boys Don't
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Three monologues about the things boys don't do. The first one is actually about a boy who did cry when necessary - unlike the two generations of men above him who always had stiff upper lips. But at the funeral of his wife he noticed the grandfathers were crying. The next a boy because of mixed messages ends up in a big fight on the first day at Secondary School. The third about a boy who gets angry and violent. His mother gives him a notebook to write out his anger
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Written by Justin Coe; Hadiru Mahdi; Tanaka Mhishi
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Brighton Festival
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Monologue play
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Male: 3 Female: - Other: -
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House That Jackson Built, The
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Jackson's father is building a house from found objects. Jackson does not want to move he wants to stay at the house where he had always lived with his late mother. He turns for comfort to the fairy tale book that she used to read to him
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One Way Ticket
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The children from orphanges who were sent to Australia in the 1950s
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Written by Rosemary Harris; Sophie Harris and Justin Coe
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Half Moon Theatre, London
19 Mar 2014
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Verse play
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Young Herbert's Horrors
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Young Herbert is to be a pirate but at the moment he and his boat are grounded as he has not tidied up his cabin or eaten his greens. He is sent home from school one day. His parents call in Great Uncle Albatross to put him straight
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