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Reality plays from Mark Wheeller |
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 Maverick
Musicals & Plays are indeed proud to have secured the exclusive Australian and New
Zealand publishing rights from top selling UK playwright, Mark Wheeller.
His collection of compelling scripts are already favourites
in both schools and drama groups all over the UK, are toured professionally
throughout the UK, NZ and Europe and are suitable for adults and teens for
public performance, one act play festivals and as examination texts by
teachers of senior students.
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.. is one of the most performed plays ever,
averaging one performance a day since publication. The hard-hitting
documentary styled script is the true story of a tragic drink drive
accident that results in the death of Jo, front seat passenger. The
driver, her sister Judy, escapes unharmed - or does she? Here is a high
quality drama, possibly the best to have been offered to schools in
years.
cast 12
(flex 2m/2f with doubling)
40 mins
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Full of lively humour, this is the
inspirational true story of Graham Salmon MBE, blind since birth but who
went on to become the World’s fastest blind runner, running the 100m in
11.4 secs and hitting a famous "hole in one" in the British Open!
cast 34
(flex 5m/4f with doubling)
80 mins
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Based on the true story of Dan Nolan, a teenage boy who
went missing in 2002, this unusual and deeply affecting play uses the
actual words of Daniel’s family, friends and the detective in charge to
portray its important story.
cast 13
(flex 2m/2f with doubling)
55 mins
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is based on Maureen Dunbar’s award winning novel and
film “Catherine” and charts her daughter’s uneven battle with anorexia
and the family’s difficulties in coping with it all. Told mainly through
the words of Catherine and her family, this uncompromising and sensitive
script is equally as popular in schools as it is on the one act play
circuit
cast 25
(flex 2m/3f with doubling)
70 mins
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“a model of its kind...elegantly structured, highly informative and imaginatively theatrical”
Stage and Television Today
“Mark’s plays deal with sensitive subjects in a very tasteful way ... they are superbly written
with much sensitivity and humour”
Amateur Stage UK
The audience I sat in was patently out for some whooping Friday night fun watching their mates on stage.
At the end there was a horrid silence.
Times Educational Supplement
“When our Dan went missing we assumed that Daniel’s face would be absolutely everywhere, appeals on national TV and everyone would be aware...it wasn’t like that for us.”
Pauline Nolan (Dan’s mum)
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