Drama
The Drama page is divided into two sections, ‘Stage Comedies’ and ‘Stage Tragedies’. Most plays of each type are designed for small touring and amateur casts, with minimal sets. They should also work well for playreading groups. For all purposes, full FX and soundtracks can be provided. Commercial performance rights: mail@jclamb.com. There are five comedies and three tragedies, as below.
And both in English and Spanish
Comedy
SAKI
A dramatization of some of the most popular and witty short stories by the effete Edwardian writer H.H.Munro (‘Saki’), who died on the Somme. For three or more actors or readers, lasts 35 minutes.
THE GOLD MINE
A comedy for miming and dancing to 1930’s music about the rush to acquire art treasures unwittingly owned by a poor rural family. For four male and three female actors. Lasts 90 minutes with one interval or blackout.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
An adaptation of Britain’s longest-loved sitcom, in which a visiting suitor mistakes his beloved’s crusty old father for an innkeeper. For two male and two female actors. Lasts around 70 minutes with no interval.
THE RIVALS
An adaptation of English literature’s best-known comedy, with Mrs Malaprop presiding over the mistaken identities of lovers in 18-century Bath.
PROMPT COPY
A 60-minute revue loosely based on the audience mobile phone conversations that interrupt a lecture about whether Thomas Hardy was Jack the Ripper. Requires no set and little or no script-learning, can be put on at short notice.
Tragedy
THE DRAMA OF THE RIVER PLATE
A 60-minute stage play with no set, for three male actors and one female voice, about the last days of the heroic captain of the Graf Spee.
THE FEATHER PILLOW
An 80-minute multi-media account of the sinister life and stories of South America’s most famous horror story writer, Horacio Quiroga, for four or more actors. Not for children.
QUINTIN’S HILL
A 40-minute play for three male voices about the UK’s worst train crash, on the Scottish borders at dawn in May 1915.