ScripTease

Rehearsed readings by professional actors of plays old and new

Between 2009 and 2019, we performed 113 readings of 89 scripts including 26 new plays ❉, many by local playwrights; 9 in association with Amnesty International Guildford; and 14 that went on to full production ✭

The Man Who Was Theatre by Lynda Strudwick

The Bishop’s Wife LUX Radio Theatre adaptation

Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas

Stage Door LUX Radio Theatre adaptation

Apples in Winter by Jennifer Fawcett

The Jane Austen Ball compiled by Kate Napier

Amelia by George Purefoy Tilson

Who She was Before by Nicole Palomba (as The Laundry)

It’s a Wonderful Life LUX Radio Theatre adaptation

More Kin than Kind by Lynda Strudwick

The Selkie by Paul Brooks

Tea, Scones and Suffragettes by Oliver Church

Kingdom by Jaymes Sygrove

Miss Elizabeth Bennett by AA Milne

When the Cat’s Away by Claire Parker ❉ ✭

Man of Destiny by GB Shaw

Miracle on 34th Street LUX Radio Theatre adaptation

A Song at Twilight by Noel Coward

Escaping Mr Wolf adaptation by Daniel Smith based on the true story The Damage Done by Peter Wolf

Austen’s Artifice by Kate Napier ❉ ✭

Murder in the Mud Bath by Rowan Suart

Cowards of Us All by Lynda Strudwick

Rebecca Lux Radio Theatre adaptation

Pre-Burns Night: A Celebration of the Scottish Bard compiled by Mairi-Claire MacLean (and her mum)

Poems That Make Grown Women Cry from the Amnesty International publication, eds. Anthony & Ben Holden (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Miss in Her Teens or The Medley of Lovers by David Garrick

Can Any Mother Help Me? 50 years of friendship through a secret magazinecreated and devised by Foursight Theatre, scripted by Sarah Thom

You Give Me Fever: The Phaedra Cabaret by Jack Lynch ❉ ✭

Grapple by Paul Brooks

The Man Who Was Thursday adapted by Christopher Dennis and Ruben Crow 

Rotten Perfect by Claire Parker

The House of Angels by Ruth Mayo

Noel & Gertie: An Entertainment devised by Sheridan Morley

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Hairless Mezzo an adaptation of Ionesco’s La Cantatrice Chauve by Jack Lynch, Ray Murphy, Kate Napier and Edie Campbell

Immortality by Lynda Strudwick

Even if We Lose Our Lives scripted by Christine Bacon (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Sex by Mae West

Subsidence by Leighton Carter

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (the Boston Broadcast of 1932) adapted and scripted by Bill Galarno

Not Good People by Paul Brooks

Poems that Make Grown Men Cry from the Amnesty International publication, eds Anthony & Ben Holden (with Amnesty International Guildford)

8 The Play: The Fight for Marriage Equality by Dustin Lance Black

September 1968 devised and edited by Lynda and Philip Strudwick (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Identity Crisis by Lynda Strudwick

KeyStone by Guy de Ferrer

Lover’s Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald

I Take Your Hand in Mine by Carol Rocamora

Hold My Hand by Leighton Carter

Little Book of Prison from the book by Frankie Owens, adapted by Paul Brooks and Frankie Owens  

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

30 Articles of Declaration human rights’ stories framed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Trifles and The People by Susan Glaspell

Bon Ton or High Life Below Stairs by David Garrick

Message For… by Paul Brooks

A Winter Celebration compiled by Edie Campbell

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

The Fall of the House of Usher and I Saw Myself Running radio scripts

The Uses of Poetry: Peomusic poems by John Powls, music by Hilary Harwood

Afghan Monologues by Christine Bacon for iceandfire theatre (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Post Modern by Gareth Strachan

Melt by Paul Brooks

Another Sky adapted from the English PEN publication (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Voices From the Great War compiled by Edie Campbell

Dracula Orson Welles, Mercury Theatre adaptation

Reading Histories and Drawing Pullets by Kate Napier

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

The Camel’s Back, Porcelain & Pink and Mr Icky by F Scott Fitzgerald

Rendition Monologues by Christine Bacon for iceandfire theatre (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Animal Magnetism by Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald

The Stuff of Love compiled by Kate Napier

Celebrating Chekov Brian Friel’s adaptation of The Bear, and his original work Afterplay

War of the Worlds Mercury Theatre adaptation

Fall Tales compiled by Kate Napier

Consider This… by Jack Lynch ❉ ✭

Him by ee cummings

Palestine Monologues scripted by Sonja Linden for iceandfire theatre (with Amnesty International Guildford)

Old Abe by Hugh Steadman Williams

The Way to Keep Him by Arthur Murphy

Speak Truth to Power by Ariel Dorfman

Self-Made Girls by Annie Reilly

The Native by Christopher Hanvey

The Tiniest Poem by Gareth Strachan

The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort

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