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David Welsh

DAVID WELSH

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

         Best Laid Plans         Death By Murderous Means         Give Me A Chance         Happy Man, A         Make It Happen         Mayhem Players Present Love In A Transylvanian Mist         Mayhem Players Present Spectre At the Faust         Mayhem Players Present What A Beauty !         Mellow Drama         One Too Many         Patience My Sweet         See What's there
Best Laid Plans

Synopsis:
A twisted tale of love and greed

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1992   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Death By Murderous Means

Synopsis:
Hilarious attempt by Mayhem players to present an Agatha Christie type murder play

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1990   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Give Me A Chance

Synopsis:
A taught thriller set in an Italian influenced living room. Who are the couple we meet at first ? Why are they nervous ? they certainly don't like the unexpected visitors. . ..

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1991   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Happy Man, A

Synopsis:
Set in 1969. A husband tries to frame his wife for murder - and nearly gets away with it.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Make It Happen

Synopsis:
A taught fast moving thriller set in the Eighties. Adrian and Claire live life to the edge.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1996   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mayhem Players Present Love In A Transylvanian Mist

Synopsis:
Mayhem Players, the company who presented 'Death By Murderous Means, Mellow Drama and Spectre At the Faust, return to the fray again with their unique style of production - comic lunacy combined with sincerity. they are trying, although they do not always succeed. Resources may be limited but the ingenuity is not. Sets are the best they can manage from the bits and pieces they have, and costumes are often cobbled together with imagination if not accuracy. It is also noticeable that their casting net still dredges up some strange fish. In this, their latest venture, they follow the classic story of Count Dracula and his relentless stalker Professor Reisling. (I told you they didn't always get things quite right.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mayhem Players Present Spectre At the Faust

Synopsis:
Mayhem Players' hearts are in the right place, but their actors and props rarely are. We join them in their production of Spectre at the Faust, loosely based on Phantom of the Opera. the setting is decidedly shaky and not exactly in period, backstage are seen and heard, and the cast includes one latecomer who is still working from the script, some excruciating French accents, a Spectre who has trouble with his specs and the mask, and an actress with long legs (and isn't she proud of them). All the ingredients of Mayhem!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  +extras

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Mayhem Players Present What A Beauty !

Synopsis:
When the dedicated and enthusiastic members of Mayhem Players turn their hand to pantomime they do so with the same fervour and chaotic results as they have to their former classics. Confusion ranges as to which panto they are actually performing, as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington all appear with a world weary fairy, a demon with a bad back and a horse. All the usual fun of a Mayhem production with plenty of traditional panto business and melodic (?) accompaniment from Beccy and friends.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
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Mellow Drama

Synopsis:
Mayhem return to do battle with a Victorian meloDrama

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1995   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  variable

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One Too Many

Synopsis:
Frank Harris is a successful solicitor and, despite being married to Pam, he is also successful with the ladies. then, in a short space of time, his best mate demands an immediate loan of £10,000 - or else, he begins to suspect that Pam know about his current young lady, Rebecca, and to top it all - Rebecca announces that she is pregnant. It can't get worse, but then he finds himself held responsible for his best mate's death, Rebecca's brother is out to break bones, and the Police and Pam put him through the ringer.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chester Le Street     2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications(2002)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Patience My Sweet

Synopsis:
Don Weston is a hard man, at work and at home. If problems arise, he doesn`t solve them conventionally, he swats them. Problems follow on from his decision to sack one of his barmen to make way for his latest squeeze and he goes about sorting the problems in his usual way. His wife Lyn, all too aware of Don`s wandering eye, keeps quiet because she could end up aĴusorted` if she causes problems, and the trappings of Don`s success let her live a good life. And there`s always Jimmy to help here feel better. Unfortunately Jimmy, in trying to get money out of Don, only makes matters a lot worse for several people and he and Lyn decide it would be best for Lyn to go away for a week or two. But that night Don is murdered. In Act 2 DI Campbell, a quirky policeman, and his partner Rosie delve into the 'fog' until they come through with the murderer.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications(2005)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full Length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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See What's there

Synopsis:
Julie Granger pops down from London one weekend to see her widowed aunt Edna. She finds her aunt dead in her bath in the locked cottage. the Police tend to class it as an accidental death but Julie begins to see it in another light. Helped by her friend Jo and two local men, Harry and Peter, she sets about tidying up her aunt`s affairs. However, it soon seems that Harry and Peter may have their own reasons for being helpful. . .

Notes:
Information re the magic trick involved can be obtained from Castle Magical Services, York, UK

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications(1981)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full Length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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