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WEBSITE:  www.burnhamdramaturgy.com

GENRE:  Drama/Historical Fantasy

CAST SIZE (M/F):   4M, 1F

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

A French courtier is confined to his room for repeated displays of dueling in public. His plans to go on an expedition to America scuppered, he decides instead to embark upon a journey around his room. En route he finds a great many discoveries only to come face to face with a world he thought he’d left behind.

GENRE:  Drama/Historical

CAST SIZE (M/F):   3F

LENGTH:   One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

The power of dreams, mythology, and folly. AEAEA tells the story of a time when the goddess Circe met the inscrutable Penelope. Both women have a son to Odysseus. Both are queens of their own domains. And both have reputations to maintain.  

With an Olympian God on the warpath, can they resolve their differences to work together?

GENRE:  Drama/Historical

CAST SIZE (M/F):   6M, 4F

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

What does it mean to be forgotten in your own lifetime? To be aware that your work is slipping from collective memory? Gertrud Grunow, the only female master during the spiritual phase of the Bauhaus in Weimar, worked with fellow colleagues whom depended upon her research to underpin their own teachings. Bring Again The Now Of Then finds Gertrud in her study as she collects piles of papers containing a lifetime’s work. As she files, reminiscing of her time at the Bauhaus, the story of the school’s early years unfolds. It was an environment of artists, spiritualists, designers, synesthetes, philosophers, and opinionated students; in a society of revolutionaries, reactionaries, communists, conservatives, nationalists and internationalists. Sensing her time is near an end, Gertrud approaches an unlikely contact and makes on last bid to set the record straight.  

GENRE: Drama (contemporary fiction)

CAST SIZE (M/F): 3M, 3F

LENGTH:  Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Suitable for most (occasional strong language)

A meditation on the silent grief for the people we once were. During a shift at The Everlasting Arms, Nicky meets pub regular Mikey and is reminded of a life beyond the daubed walls of her lonely flat. As their acquaintance grows, Mikey shares a possession of value with Nicky which turns out to be a quest for home. Slowly, she succumbs to the routine of the regulars, their camaraderie, their pranks; grateful of their existence. Before long, Nicky realises that she too is on a quest for home – a place that hitherto has never existed.

GENRE:  Drama (contemporary fiction)

CAST SIZE (M/F):   1 (M or F)

LENGTH:   One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Contains strong language

HEAD (Hope, Expectation & Disappointment) is the story of a head-strong inventor. They are recognised in the workplace for their genius but over time they have built up many enemies. Exasperated at the limits of their power, they speak their mind. They are, after all, irreplaceable.

GENRE:  Drama (contemporary fiction)

CAST SIZE (M/F):   1M, 2F

LENGTH:   One act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

Leo overlooked one crucial aspect of his estate when he divided his fortune amongst his daughters last year: his ABBA collection. Once more he summons them. He hopes it might go better this time. He hopes they’ll turn up. He hopes they’ll see the peaceful soul inside the restless body and appreciate the act of love he is about to undertake.

GENRE:  Drama (contemporary fiction)

CAST SIZE (M/F):   1M, 4F

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Suitable for most (occasional strong language)

A man works to make a name for himself. Two women take time out to remember themselves. The guiding hand of an unseen system urges them ever onwards: better, further, faster, bolder. In the end is their beginning.

GENRE:  Drama (contemporary fiction)

CAST SIZE (M/F):   3M, 1F

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    18 years + (contains adult content)

Ed has reached a crossroads in life. All the old certainties are crumbling and increasingly he feels at a loss at what to do next. His tutor, Delphine, offers a route out of the impasse. When he moves in with her and her flatmate, Alex, the freedom he sought soon turns out to be something else altogether.