Dramas with Music

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Brendan Ahoy! Ref: AC124

Arthur Scholey and Donald Swann

This vivid account of the Brendan story can be performed by any combination of children and adults with piano, and is equally suitable for semi-staging cantata style or for a full dramatic production. Words by Arthur Scholey and music by Donald Swann tell of the original discovery of America in colourful terms, but with a sub text relating to joy in the created world, and the spiritual hopes and uncertainties relating to any voyage of human discovery. The Vocal Score provides everything for performance.

Price: £11.50

One Friday. Vocal Score Ref: AC82

Edmund Banyard and Kathleen Johnson

This play for Passiontide is built around a character in an unnamed country, eventually taken for execution. The play relates the events from which the Christian Gospel was born as the Passion narrative is interwoven with the story of our contemporary 'Tom'. The music can be played on keyboard, but is best supplemented with flute and guitar and other improvising instruments. The play runs for about two hours and formed part of a festival of plays presented for a season at London's Westminster Theatre. A minimum of five male actors and two female singing actors is needed, with opportunities for all the extras available and an on- or off-stage chorus.

Price: £10.95

One Friday. Chorus Part Ref: B563A

Edmund Banyard and Kathleen Johnson

Price: £3.50

One Friday. Dramatic Text Ref: B563

Edmund Banyard and Kathleen Johnson

Price: £2.75

One Friday. PERFORMING LICENCE Ref: AC82L

A Play by Edmund Banyard
with Music by Kathleen Johnson

This is a performing licence for "One Friday". The cost is £25.00 +VAT per performance. Please adjust the quantity in the shopping basket to reflect the number of performances you will be making. (There will be no carriage charged on this item).

Price: £25.00 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

One Friday in Eternity Ref: Y138

A Play with Music
By Edmund Banyard

Written for the simplest of dramatic settings, such as a church without scenery but with a cross used as the focus for lighting and action, One Friday in Eternity has proved to be a popular and thought-provoking account of the crucifixion story. Admirers of Edmund Banyard's full-scale Passiontide play One Friday will welcome this same inspiring treatment of the Easter theme, but on a scale that requires neither elaborate preparation nor a sophisticated stage venue. The text and songs of One Friday in Eternity have been used as part of church services and as a separate dramatic presentation. A minimum of four players is required (there were five at the first performance), and the duration is approximately half-an-hour.

Price: £4.00

One Friday in Eternity. PERFORMING LICENCE Ref: Y138L

A Play with Music
By Edmund Banyard

This is a performing licence for "One Friday in Eternity". The cost is £12.50 +VAT per performance. Please adjust the quantity in the shopping basket to reflect the number of performances you will be making. (There will be no carriage charged on this item).

Price: £12.50 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

Out of This World Ref: Y139

A Play with Music
By Edmund Banyard

Out of This World begins where One Friday in Eternity ends; these two short dramas can be performed on their own or in sequence, being separate presentations of the two parts of the Easter story, crucifixion and resurrection, that are so skillfully woven as in the narrative of Edmund Banyard's full-scale Passiontide play, One Friday. Tom, who in the play is a modern-day political prisoner, becomes the Messenger, a man out of time who is witness to Christ's resurrection and condemned to execution. Topical, yet also concerned with eternal themes, Out of This World can be performed by four readers, players and musicians with minimum staging, and is about 30 minutes' duration.

Price: £4.50

The Song of Caedmon. Full Score Ref: AC90

Arthur Scholey and Donald Swann

The well-loved story of the simple, shy cowherd, lay brother in the seventh century Whitby Abbey, and how he was inspired by a divine vision to become 'father of religious poetry', in a musical drama (40 mins. approx.) with beautiful music by Donald Swann. The story is told in dialague, which can be acted in full costume and adapted to provide several more parts, or simply narrated by one person in the concert version as required. The music is for choir and instruments (piano, recorders, bells as available). The Full Score contains background notes and production suggestions.

Price: £11.50

The Song of Caedmon. Chorus Part Ref: B107

Arthur Scholey and Donald Swann

Price: £4.50

Stone on Stone. Full Score including text Ref: W188

Timothy Dudley-Smith and Derek Scott

Stone on Stone is a cantata for two soloists, choir and organ and just about anyone else who can join in. Timothy Dudley-Smith dramatizes the theme of the Trinity through a confrontation between the builders of a great church and groups of sceptical bystanders. The music, by former Muppet-Show MD Derek Scott, is continuous, and packed with good tunes. A 'Searcher of the Soul' (soprano or tenor) and a 'Watcher of the Heavens' (bass) meditate on the inner meaning of events. Different viewpoints are reconciled in the final affirmation 'A Trinity of Love who reigns alone', sung congregationally. Available in vocal score and separate melody edition, this highly accessible piece is guaranteed success whether performed by small groups or a massed gathering of singers.

Price: £2.65

Stone on Stone. Melody Edition Ref: W189

Timothy Dudley-Smith and Derek Scott

Price: £1.75

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