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Chris Peach reviews this script by Peter Quilter
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For the first time for a long time, this week’s new plays are mostly by female playwrights
There’s Emily Mann’s Mrs Packard about a very sane woman who was committed by her husband to an Illinois asylum in 1861
And in Sherry Kramer’s Nano and Nicki in Boca Raton, a grandmother and her granddaughter take a life-changing road-trip to Florida
Then there’s The Bad Guys, an all-male, testosterone-fuelled drama from Alena Smith and Eat Your Heart Out from Courtney Baron and No Way Around But Through, a quirky romantic comedy from Scott Caan
But we begin with “a beautifully crafted interpretation of the 1925 novel which defined the Jazz Age”
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The Exotic east is the setting for this adaption of one of the many tales of Sinbad, we start in the old souk and end up on the island of enchantica as Sinbad aims to make his fortune and win his bride efore the evil Jvar and princess Zarrin get their own way. The comic duo of the market traders Ebay el Asda and Aldi el Lidle keep the comedy going. The roles of the caliph’s children are ideal for younger cast members. With a twist in the tale as …
Windy the Miller just can’t help himself, at the drop of a hat he will begin to tell the most outrageous stories and claim them to be true. On this particular day his bluff has been called when he, with his daughter Sophie, are called to the palace to explain themselves to the King. Much to Sophie’s horror Windy sticks to the story that she can spin straw into gold, so the King wants to see for himself and Sophie is kept in a room where she must spin all …
The palace is in chaos as preparations for the christening go ahead. The catering is being done by the Nelligan “Twins” Nora and Nelly, who also run the local wash house. Mr Snappit court Photographer is ready with his box brownie and the weathercock has been polished by the two monks Brother Contagious and Brother Infectious. When the Queen in her wisdom refuses to invite the thirteenth fairy it causes a lot of trouble! The Wicked fairy places the Princess Charlotte under a terrible spell that she will die on …
