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Our
Plays:
For
practical reasons, only two of the team�s 15+ scripts are ever current. While
the full list includes a handful of traditional plays, the majority are self-written
and include such diverse subjects as the Battle of Trafalgar, the Civil War
Siege of Bradford, John Bull, the Spanish Armada, Robin Hood, the Witchfinder
General and Grass Green plus a wide range of characters ranging from Roman generals
to a 15 foot high giant, an exploding dragon, an elephant with a fondness for
buns and a rebellious boar�s head.
The 2011
programme features the following:-
The
Jack Frost Play:
Regular watchers
of our attempts at serious drama may like to know that the last time this particular
play went out, one of our number attempted to blow himself up! The fact that
he was only partially successful raises the possibility that he may repeat the
exercise, which only goes to prove what a sadistic lot our audiences are. No
matter - this John Scrimshaw script features other attractions including the
icy-fingered hero himself, a blast of North Wind (courtesy of Heinz Baked Beans),
a man wearing a stove pipe on his head and the folk world's answer to the Full
Monty as the credits roll. Well not quite. There are limits and we don't want
to frighten the horses.
The
John Bull Play:
Bradshaw have tackled a wide variety of subjects over the years but basing a new play around a lump of rock is going a bit even for us. Not just any rock, mind you, THE rock if you don't mind, that big one stuck on the bottom of Spain. Throw in our national hero, a scaled-down bulldog on a bungy rope, a dozy Spanish King and that bird who used to adorn the back of a 50p piece and it's UKIP versus the European Union. Loud choruses of Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory are, of course, obligatory, plus putting the boot into the French. What more could you want?
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