LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nick warburton

11 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nick warburton

  • Writing for TV and Radio
    Nick Warburton / Sue Teddern
    This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio.PART 1 explores the nature of the media. It looks at the history of writing drama and comedy for radio and TV through a consideration of its key elements and some of the most successful dramas and comedies of past and present.PART 2 includes reflections and ...
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    44,20 €

  • For Starters - A Play
    Nick Warburton
    Daisy is a recently employed waitress at an hotel and Roland, a regular and rather particular customer, is getting more than he ordered. From polite conversation to an outright invasion of privacy, Daisy attends to Roland in her unique way. They realize they have something to learn from each other - Daisy needs to be less nosey and Roland learns how to accept change.1 woman, 1 ...
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    13,01 €

  • Purvis
    Nick Warburton
    Rachel, the vicar’s wife, chats to recently-widowed Mr Purvis and is cornered into offering him the post of the church’s Health and Safety Officer. Purvis is keen but causes more problems than he solves, the vicar being the prime victim of his misguided attempts to make things safer. Funny, touching and wry, this play for two actors is an example of comedy writing at its very b...
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    13,01 €

  • Dickens’ Children
    Nick Warburton
    This is Charles Dickens the social reformer linking cameo child scenes from Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House and David Copperfield. One actor plays the adult Dickens and the main child part in each scene while the other 6 actors play a selection of roles, both adult and child, and act as narrators. Within the space of one act, Nick Warburton conveys the humour...
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    12,98 €

  • Garlic and Lavender
    Nick Warburton
    Dolly and Clara arrive at Castle Drackenberg, unaware that danger lurks behind every corner, for the castle’s owner, Count Drackenburg, is a vampire! This play combines every traditional element of the vampire horror genre - including a sinister henchman, surly villagers and doughty vampire expert - with a strong measure of daft comedy, to hilarious effect!Large flexible cast ...
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    14,12 €

  • Melons at the Parsonage
    Nick Warburton
    Two amateur drama groups become joint winners of a play festival. A tie-break involves the groups performing an extract from their own entry and then an excerpt from the opposing team’s play, but the pieces are very different. They compete again with hilarious results but the outcome is still a tie. This time a rugby scrum will decide the winner!4 women, 4 men, 2 women or men ...
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    14,00 €

  • Domby-Dom
    Nick Warburton
    Some children decide to put on a play. It must be about football, says one. It must be set in Space, says another. There must be adventure. So begins the production of Indiana Smith and the Cup Final of Doom, or The Return of the Tedi, in which Teddy and Jemima battle against Timmy and Popkins who are intent on destroying the Inter-Galaxy Cup Final at Wembley.Large flexible cas...
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    13,97 €

  • Office Song - A Play
    Nick Warburton
    Brian is attempting to escape his firm’s Christmas party when he is waylaid in the cloakroom by Claire, who soon discovers a secret about her unassuming colleague: at home, he likes to sing Doris Day songs. Claire tries to persuade Brian to take part in a talent contest; with her friend Wendy she sets about training Brian to sing in public.2 women, 1 man ...
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    14,00 €

  • The Last Bread Pudding - A Comedy
    Nick Warburton
    The committee of an amateur drama group is meeting to discuss a new play. We notice that, strangely, the presentation of the meeting to us is reflecting the ideas put forward by the committee, making the play a demonstration as well as a discussion of those ideas. A clever and entertaining piece, ideal for festivals.4 women, 2 men, 2 women or men ...
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    14,03 €

  • The Droitwich Discovery - A Play
    Nick Warburton
    Four thespian enthusiasts find themselves in a dusty attic in Droitwich. Their guide explains that Shakespeare, aged ten, lived there. Then there emerges a Tudor-looking man, the ghost of Terry Shakespeare, embittered by his brother William’s literary thievery. To prove his point, he puts the visitors in a trance, making them perform scenes from the plays he has written.4 women...
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    14,09 €

  • Round the World with Class Six - A play for children
    Nick Warburton
    Class 6 are well-behaved, hard-working... and bored. Every day is much the same and then Mr Parker, the supply teacher, sets them an interesting project: to re-enact Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world in 1577. Within minutes the room is transformed into an Elizabethan sailing ship and the brave adventurers set sail!30 women or men ...
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    13,90 €