doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Helen Newall

HELEN NEWALL

  
Nationality:    British
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a

Helen Newall's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

please send corrections / additions to doollee as an attachment -> download WORD submission template

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Another Sun         Anthem For Doomed Youth         Beowulf         Frankenstein         Grimms' Tales         Shoah
Another Sun

Synopsis:
In 1884, five year old Albert Einstein is given a compass as a present, awakening in him a scientific curiosity. In 1939, he writes to the US president urging him to build the atomic bomb to counter Nazi aggression. Six years later in Hiroshima, the hands of the town clock are bent backwards, and the trees are crumbled to ash. Einstein's footprints are fading fast. In 2007, in the centre of a small Ukrainian town there is a statue of the god who gave fire to man. It is a ghost town. A sign reads 'Welcome to Chernobyl'.

Notes:
written by Helen Newell And Russ Tunney

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nuffield Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Anthem For Doomed Youth

Synopsis:
November 1918. . .after four long years of conflict there have been orders: at eleven o clock, the guns will fall silent. Until then, they still thunder and men still die. Out in no mans land, two soldiers from opposing armies are trapped in a shell hole and can do nothing but wait wait together and shelter. Meanwhile, behind the front, a nurse prepares for the final casualties. Time passes so slowly the hands of their watches seem to have stopped. . .A blend of voices, poetry, and recollections of the Great War.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nuffield Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Beowulf

Synopsis:
Marauding monsters, dragons and excitement in this 8th Century Anglo-Saxon classic. Beowulf's great enemy is Grendel the monster, who he eventually kills - only to have to fight Grendel's mother who is bent on revenge.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Forum Studio Theatre (Formerly The Chester Gateway), Chester     11 Sep 2002

Organisations:
Cheshire County Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Frankenstein

Synopsis:
the story of a man who played with life and created a monster, or rather, created a creature whose lack of a sense of belonging made him feel and act life a monster. But who was the monster? the creator or the created?

Notes:
from book by Mary Shelley

1st Produced:
Forum Studio Theatre (Formerly The Chester Gateway), Chester     17 Sep 2003

Organisations:
Cheshire County Youth Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Grimms' Tales

Synopsis:
Grimm's Tales have thrilled readers for centuries with their timeless magic of enchanting folk stories and fantastical characters. This adaptation blends language, song, puppetry and quality theatre design into a vividly entertaining and educational resource for both school and family audiences.

Notes:
from the stories of the Brothers Grimm. music by Matt Baker

1st Produced:
Trinity Theatre And Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells     27 Feb 2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Shoah

Synopsis:
Shoah (Heb: N, the Holocaust, disaster). Shoah is a contemporary piece of physical theatre set within the darkest days of the Holocaust and tells the astonishing story of one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century - Raoul Wallenberg. This unarmed Swedish diplomat personally faced down the SS, the Hungarians and even Adolph Eichmann himself.

Notes:
conceived by Helen Newell And Russ Tunney

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Nuffield Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
piece 60 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page