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Ellen Dryden

ELLEN DRYDEN

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Ellen Dryden's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Adventure Camp         Anna's Room         Burston Drum, The         Children's Ward         Colour Of Compassion, The         Flatmates         Half An Hour Please         Harvest         In Service         Natural Causes         Power Of the Dog, The         Press Gang, The         Shadows         Six Primroses Each         Strawberry Tea         Summer In the Park         Thursday Is the Day For Stripping Beds

Adventure Camp

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Anna's Room

Synopsis:
anna moves into a flat with a female friend, Prue, to escape from the restraints of a suffocating relationship. In the old attic room which she adopts as her study, anna is presented with a ghostly series of women through the ages. Through these, the visits of her doggedly devoted boyfriend, her flat-mate's self-seeking and manipulative brother and Prue's mother, anna contemplates her life and what she wants from it in this 'Twentieth-Century Woman's dilEmma'.

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Samuel French, London, 1984   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Burston Drum, The

Synopsis:
On the 1st April, 1914, in the village of Burston, a group of children went on strike to protest at the unfair dismissal of their teachers. the Burston Drum tells the story in musical form.

Notes:
book by ellen Dryden; lyrics by Don Taylor; music by Charles Young

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Samuel French, London, 1989   -

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Genre:
Childrens Musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  11            Other:  extras

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Children's Ward

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Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Colour Of Compassion, The

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Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Flatmates

Synopsis:
Steve, a law student whose wealthy parents own the flat, lets out two rooms to Lynn and Tom, who are studying english. In the opening scene, Steve is sitting at an old wooden dining table loaded with milk bottles, cartons and cornflake packets consuming a large breakfast. Lynn sits opposite him removing her nail varnish. they are both in a disagreeable mood. Tom joins them. He has been sitting up most of the night writing an essay and is not at his best. Steve has taken his milk and poured it into his coffee -they quarrel and Tom finally rushes out of the room. Steve comments that Tom is getting tiresome. Lynn starts to collect up her things. This is worse than sharing with her girlfriends Kate and abbey: at least they only rowed about fellas. ~Wheels within undercurrents' are more than she can take.

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Chiswick Youth Theatre    -

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1st Published:
in Six Primroses each and other Plays for young actors, First Writes Publications, London,    -

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Play/Drama

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Half An Hour Please

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/4

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Harvest

Synopsis:
family confrontation at the village chapel where they are gathered for the funeral of their oldest member

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Samuel French, London, 1982   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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In Service

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Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Natural Causes

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/4

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Power Of the Dog, The

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Press Gang, The

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Shadows

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Six Primroses Each

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Strawberry Tea

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Six Primroses each and Other Plays For Young actors" published by First Writes   978-1901071016

Music:
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Genre:
Youth one act

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Summer In the Park

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written with Don Taylor

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Samuel French, London,    -

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Thursday Is the Day For Stripping Beds

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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 16/4

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