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| Master Shakeshafte by Peter Parkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 84 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full length play, with a variety of settings, generally indicated by furniture and atmosphere. |
| Synopsis | There is much speculation over the 'missing years' of Shakespeare's life, and this play offers a glimpse into what may have happened if the bard of Avon really did spend time as a tutor in Hoghton Hall, before becoming a playwright in earnest. There are numerous nods to familiar plays and characters, and also lines or titles which may delight an alert audience. |
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| With Garibaldi In Rome by Peter Parkinson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 13. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Most of the characters are adults, with one eleven-year-old boy. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Historical drama with multiple locations in Rome indicated largely by lighting and furniture. |
| Synopsis | Eleanor Chadwick is in Rome, looking for answers to her husband's death as the city is liberated from the Pope's authoritarian rule. But the French besiege the city and Eleanor finds more than the answers she sought. |
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