Drama resources (cont.)
Scripts
Junior scripts
Once Upon a Stormy Night Joyce Rowland Five Finger Discount Denise Walsh Ash girl Timberlake Wertenbaker On stage series Longman Paul Choices Longman Paul
Play Bureau scripts These are suitable for junior classes (levels 7–10, but more likely levels 9–10): Every seventeen minutes the crowd goes crazy Paul Zindel Anne of Green Gables Joseph Robinette Charlotte's web Joseph Robinette An Alien stole my Skateboard Randell Lewton (who also wrote Sweeney Todd and Shock and roll show) Stone Soup Paul Thain Uncool Vin Morreale Jnr Anne Frank and me Cherie Bennett This is a test Stephen Gregg
Useful New Zealand playwrights for years 7–11 Susan Battye Denise Walsh Bruce Goodman David Hill Patrick Spillane Kerry Lynch
Senior scripts
Blue vein Duncan Sarkies Blast off Michelanne Forster (for a junior audience) New Zealand lamb Angie Farrow
HOD Handbook Secondary Drama – Resources: Scripts page 1 Accessed from Te Kete Ipurangi, www.tki.org.nz/arts/hod_handbook/index_e.php Audition For life Denise Walsh Black is a Shade of Grey Elizabeth Fow Blind Date Sarah Delahunty Waiting for the Principal Stuart Hoar New Connections Faber & Faber(two editions) Playlunch (1996) ed Christine Prentice & Lisa Warrington. University of Otago Press.
Scripts available to borrow The New Zealand Theatre Federation Library is a source for the following texts:
Passengers Fiona Farrell The bellbird Stephen Sinclair Akaroa Jean Lawrence Act of faith Jean Lawrence Clay Eric Bradwell Dynamite Roger Hall The land of the moa George Leitch (Written in the 1800s, this is an important historical play set on the pink and white terraces – buy it through Playmarket) The Crucible Arthur Miller Antigone Jean Anouilh Tia Lavandera and the Day of the Dead Lena Erakovich, The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht Living with Lady Macbeth Rob John Rites of Passage Denise Walsh String of Dreams Denise Walsh Ours but to Do David Hill The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty David Calcutt The Big Blue Planet Earth Show Gary Henderson Michael James Manaia John Broughton Wednesday to Come Renée Coal Town Blues Mervyn Thompson Daughters of Heaven Michaelanne Forster Larnach Michaelanne Forster The end of the Golden Weather Bruce Mason
HOD Handbook Secondary Drama – Resources: Scripts page 2 Accessed from Te Kete Ipurangi, www.tki.org.nz/arts/hod_handbook/index_e.php Tomorrow will be a Lovely Day Craig Harrison Shuriken Vincent O’Sullivan Waiora Hone Kouka Ka shue Linda Chan Wai Earle Foreskin’s Lament Greg McGee Lovelock’s dream run David Geary Bare Toa Fraser Purapurawhetu Briar Grace-Smith Sons Victor Roger Chunuk Bair Maurice Shadbolt Joyful and Triumphant Robert Lord Ophelia Thinks Harder Jean Betts A Frigate Bird Sings Oscar Kightley Red Fish, Blue Fish Pip Hall Branches David Hill
Aotearoa Writers scripts The following texts are available from Aotearoa Writers, PO Box 5202, Papanui, Christchurch: To Drive Sadness from the Mind Denise Walsh Jigsaw Bruce Goodman
Short pieces Big dramas Anne Murray MACMILLAN Real dramas Anne Murray MACMILLAN 40 short plays Anne Cartwright (Heinemann) Performance power Heinemann (UK) Scenes and stages Heinemann (UK)
HOD Handbook Secondary Drama – Resources: Scripts page 3 Accessed from Te Kete Ipurangi, www.tki.org.nz/arts/hod_handbook/index_e.php