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Arrivals / Departures
by STEP UP Summer School Ensemble
Toured Summer 2009
Five women, five life-changing decisions to be made, five extraordinary stories of new arrivals woven together into a single compelling evening of theatre.
New Perspectives is delighted to present five of the winning monologues from its...
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Dolly
by Andy Barrett
Toured Autumn 2010
The cloning meet Country & Western musical!
When Dolly the sheep burst onto the world stage in 1996, the first ever mammal cloned from an adult cell (and named after Dolly Parton in honour of the mammary gland from which that cell was...
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Faith Healer
by Brian Friel
Toured Autumn 2009
'Faith healer - faith healing - occasionally it worked - and when it did, when I stood before a man and placed my hands on him and watched him become whole in my presence, those were nights of exultation, of consummation.'
For one night...
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How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The FA Cup
by J.L. Carr adapted by Paul Hodson
Edinburgh 3-29 Aug 2011 / Touring 9 Nov 2011 - 11 Feb 2012
Is it possible? Could a humble village team really have taken on football's finest and triumphed? When an enigmatic trainer with revolutionary theories, two of the best players ever to have disappeared from football's top flight, and a...
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In Search of Pontiflunk
by Phil Smith
Toured Spring 2008
When in the Spring of 2007 writer Phil Smith laced up his walking boots and set off in the footsteps of Edwardian man-on-a-mission Charles Hurst, he was hoping to find out what had driven this mild-mannered engineer to down tools and walk;...
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Lark Rise To Candleford
by Flora Thompson adapted by Daniel Buckroyd
Touring 2 Mar - 21 May 2011
‘Goodbye Laura. And don't forget to write!'
When young Laura Timms sets out from the tiny village of Lark Rise to start a new life in the nearby market town of Candleford she finds herself torn between her love of the countryside...
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Last Train to Nibroc
by Arlene Hutton
Toured Autumn 2003 / Spring 2004
When a chance meeting on a train bound for New York reveals a shared history in small-town Kentucky, bookish Sunday School teacher May and charming young pilot Raleigh are forced to confront their pasts and make decisions that wil shape...
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Mirka's Story
by Julie Wilkinson
Toured Schools Summer 2007
Against a backdrop of significant recent migration into the UK, it is estimated that there are now as many as seventy thousand migrant workers living in Lincolnshire, equivalent to a tenth of the resident population, of whom half intend to...
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Not Now, Bernard & Other Monster Stories
by David McKee adapted by Daniel Buckroyd
Toured Summer/Autumn 2005
Not Now, Bernard & Other Monster Stories retells three David McKee monster classics (Not Now, Bernard, The Two Monsters and The Monster And The Teddy) through the eyes of the child and her parents, using masks, puppets and possibly the...
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