OtherLives Productions has a variety of plays, speeches and readings available.
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Current Repertoire Details
Elementary, My Dear Dickens by Richard Avery and Neil King
One Act Play
Radio or stage version
Time: 35 minutes
2/3 Actors (2M/2M, 1F)
The Proposal by Anton Chekhov
One Act play
Time: 25 minutes
3 Actors (2M, 1F)
‘…had the audience laughing heartily’ Goole Times
John John, the Husband; Tyb, the Wife; and Sir Jonathon, the Friar by John Heywood
adapted by Neil King
One Act play
Time: 20 minutes
3 actors (2M, 1F)
Mak the Thief
An adaptation of the ‘Second Shepherd’s Play’ in the Wakefield Mystery Cycle
One Act Play
15 minutes
5 actors (4M, 1F)
The Objet d’Art
One Act Play, adapted by Neil King from Anton Chekhov’s short story
Time: 12 minutes
2 actors (2M)
Christmas at Arles
One Act Play by Richard Avery and Neil King
Gaughin and Van Gogh together on 23rd December 1889
Time: 18 minutes
2 actors (2M)
Epiphany
One Act Play by Richard Avery
In which an ex-mineworker, who has served time in prison, and a blacksmith, who fought in the First World War and was one of the ‘Lions led by Donkeys’, come together as ARP fireguards in the Christmas of 1941. Their respective faiths, Christianity and Socialism, are tested in a comic and moving clash of views which ends in an epiphany for both men
Time: 35 minutes
2 actors (2M)
Marriage & Murder
A combination of readings and performance drama taken from the work of Austen, Dickens & Chekhov
Time: 1 hour 10 minutes (+ interval if required between the readings and the performance)
Love & Lust
A combination of readings and performance drama taken from the Tudor period
Time: 1 hour 10 minutes (+ interval if required between the readings and the performance)
Charles Dickens meets Sherlock Holmes
An evening of Delight and Mystery combining readings and a radio drama in which Sherlock Holmes helps Dickens to solve a mystery which is killing him.
Time: 1 hour 20 minutes (+ interval if required between the readings and the performance)
2/3 Actors (2M/2M+1F)
Doodlebugs & Decorations
A medley of seasonal readings and semi-dramatisations on the theme of Christmas during times of war.
Time: 35 minutes
2 actors
Annus Horrible!
Terrible Events at Lincoln Cathedral related by the Builder, his Wife, the Prient and the Lover
Readings and a play related to Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln & Lincolnshire
Time: 45 minutes or 90 minutes (interval in latter version)
Cream of Coward
The wit and music of the Man with a Talent to amuse
Time: From 10 to 80 minutes
2 to 12 actors, singers and musicians
Themed Christmas readings from Advent through to Twelfth Night
45 minutes
2 or more actors
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov
Monologue
Time: 10 minutes
1 Actor (M)
‘hilarious’ GooleTimes
A Stagecoach Ride to Christmas from ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Charles Dickens
Reading
Time: 8 minutes
1 Actor (M)
Scrooge on Christmas Eve from ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens
Reading
Time: 9 minutes
2 Actors (M)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes from ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ by Arthur Conon Doyle
Reading
Time: 11 minutes
2 Actors (M)
The Murder of Nancy from ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens
Reading
Time: 11 minutes
1 Actor (M)
Mr. Collins’ Proposal from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen
Reading
Time: 10 minutes
1 Actor (F)
To the Immortal Memory
A Burns Night Speech
Time: 10 minutes
1 Speaker (M)
Georgemas: A Celebration for St George’s Day
Readings
Time: flexible
1 to 3 Actors (M/F)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Full length play in 2 Acts
Time: 2 hours including an interval
5 actors
A Foreign Country by Richard Avery
Full length play with 1950s to 1980s music in 2 Acts
Time: 2 hours including an interval
7 actors
A Romantic Evening
in the company of:
William ‘Tyger’ Blake
Samuel Taylor ‘Where’s the Corkscrew?’ Coleridge
William ‘Eight-Pints-of-Water-a-Day’ Wordsworth
John ‘I’m no Pansy’ Keats
Percy ‘the Mercurial’ Shelley
and
Lord ‘Gorgeous George’ Gordon ‘Mad, bad and Dangerous to Know’ Byron
Concluding with the World Première of Neil King’s
One Last Drink
Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Brief Lives by Patrick Garland
Two Act play
Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
1 actor (M)
A fireside entertainment of tales to chase away the last of Winter
Readings and semi-dramatisations,
including a guest appearance from the past
Winter Warmers
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
2 actors (M)
“The actor absorbs and then reflects other lives” Olive Schreiner 1883