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MARGARET WOOD (1911 - 2002)
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Cato's Daughter
Christmas Musical, The
Copper Kettle, The
Courting Disaster
Covenant With Death
Crying In The Wilderness
Day Of Atonement
Dog's Life, A
Donatus And The Devil
Double Dealers, The
Edward
Fishy Business, A
Fit For A King
Fool's Errand
Guilty Generation, The
Home Is The Sailor
Instruments Of Darkness
Interrogation
Kind Of Justice, A
King And The Quaker, The
Last Scene Of All
Martyred Wives
merely Players': A Festival Prologue And Epilogue
Moving Story, A
My Dear Evans
Out-Patients
Parochial Problems
Peace Hath Her Victories
Person of No Consequence, A
Pilgrim's Way
Primrose Path, The
Road to Damascus, The
Robert Of Sicily
Root Of All Evil
Safety Of The State, The
Substitute
Susanna And The Welsh Elders
Top Table
Week End In Bethany
Witches, The
Withington Warrior
Cato's Daughter
Synopsis:
set in ancient Rome
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- 1957
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Christmas Musical, The
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Contained in: "Plays For Christmas and Easter" published by Heinemann 1966 -
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Copper Kettle, The
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When she finds an unpaid bill for a copper kettle, ship's chandler's wife Rebecca sends her son, Jem, with an invoice to every captain in dock - hoping to shame the culprit into paying. When he arrives back Jem finds his mother berating his father for having a drink. He tells his mother what he thinks of her and gives her the money for the copper kettle. What he does not let her know is that every captain had paid for it and with the money he plans to get married
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Courting Disaster
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Samuel French, London, 1983 -
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Covenant With Death
Synopsis:
The story of Erida a servant to the Egyptian Queen. On the death of the Queen all her servants are to be entombed with her
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Evans Bros, London, 1970 -
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Crying In The Wilderness
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A great wooden horse stands before the gates of Troy and despite Cassandra's warnings King Priam orders it brought in
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Samuel French, London, 1964 -
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Day Of Atonement
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Twelve years after the end of World War Two, Jakob and his family are still living in a refugee camp. The son Otto is now 22 and full of frustration at his situation. He joins a gang of hooligans and when they discover that the camp doctor had worked in a concentration camp they shoot him
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Dog's Life, A
Synopsis:
A small country court. Rover has been put on trial for sheep worrying
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Samuel French, London, 1962 -
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Comedy One Act
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Donatus And The Devil
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Double Dealers, The
Synopsis:
Will Mercer has to go away on business. He arranges for his cousin - a monk - to keep his wife company whilst he is away. But the wife is young and frustrated and the monk does not have his mind on higher things
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Edward
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Fishy Business, A
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Play One Act
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Fit For A King
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Fool's Errand
Synopsis:
Three young men swear revenge for the death of another of their friends. The decide to kill Death. They enter a wood and ask an old man where Death is. He says he is asleep under a tree. They see a bundle of rags and thinking it is Death stab it - but it turns out to be a sack full of gold pieces
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Tale From Chaucer One act
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Guilty Generation, The
Synopsis:
A D 2000 and a group of survivors of the nuclear holocaust struggle for existence in the French Alps. The young blame the old for the nuclear devastation
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Samuel French, London, 1958 -
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Home Is The Sailor
Synopsis:
The return of Odysseus
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Contained in: "Ninth Windmill Book Of One Act Plays" published by Heinemann Educational 1977 -
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Instruments Of Darkness
Synopsis:
At Inverness Castle Katrine the head cook awaits the return of her husband and her daughter's sweetheart. They are both men at arms with Macbeth. Their reunion is cut short when the two men are chosen to stand guard over the King
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Interrogation
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Contained in: "Plays For Christmas and Easter" published by Heinemann 1966 -
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Kind Of Justice, A
Synopsis:
The liberating soldiers take over a farm house. The young farmer's wife is told they have shot her husband. They demand wine but before they drink it they want her to prove it is not poisoned by giving some to her baby son and drinking some herself. She does. In the morning they are all dead apart from one soldier who abstained from drink
Notes:
Suggested by the Poem by F. L. Lucas, 'spain 1809'
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King And The Quaker, The
Synopsis:
Three Quaker women go to the King to plead for George Fox
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Samuel French, London, 1968 -
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Genre:
Historical One act
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Male: 1  Female: 4  Other: extras
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Last Scene Of All
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Samuel French, London, 1988 -
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One Act
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Martyred Wives
Synopsis:
about the wives of the 19th century Tolpuddle martyrs
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Samuel French, London, 1983 -
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One Act
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merely Players': A Festival Prologue And Epilogue
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in "New Plays Quarterly No.36" Queckett, London, 1957 -
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Prologue And Epilogue
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Moving Story, A
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Samuel French, London, 1977 -
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One Act
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My Dear Evans
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Out-Patients
Synopsis:
A middle aged woman has been attending the out-patients department for so long she now sees herself and guardian and advisor of any newcomers
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One act
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Parochial Problems
Synopsis:
village hall politics
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Samuel French, London, 1977 -
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One Act
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Peace Hath Her Victories
Synopsis:
A Quaker settlement in America in the early part of the War of Independence
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- 1975
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Samuel French, London, 1975 -
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Person of No Consequence, A
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Pilgrim's Way
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Genre:
Historical Drama
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Primrose Path, The
Synopsis:
A bitter dispute between two former lovers has led one of them to close the footpath through his property
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One act
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Road to Damascus, The
Synopsis:
Saul in the last hours before his conversion on the road to Damascus
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- 1956
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Contained in: "Third Windmill Book Of One Act Plays" published by Heinemann Educational 1965 -
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Robert Of Sicily
Synopsis:
Robert of Sicily is a remote and arrogant king. An Angel comes to teach him the errors of his ways
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Based On Legend
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Root Of All Evil
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Safety Of The State, The
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Substitute
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Susanna And The Welsh Elders
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Samuel French, London, 1974 -
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Genre:
Satire
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Top Table
Synopsis:
about international diplomacy
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- 1973
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Samuel French, London, 1973 -
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Week End In Bethany
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Witches, The
Synopsis:
Dorcas Kimball denounces an old lady who lives alone with her cat as a witch. But it is Dorcas who is the witch and this is a smoke screen
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Play/Drama
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Withington Warrior
Synopsis:
Rivalry between cattle breeders
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One Act
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