Charles Barron
Playwright
More Charles Barron plays
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PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Eagle Has Flown. A play for youth, performed by the Mitchell School of Drama. Commissioned by Gordon Forum for the Arts.
Flight Flight was commissioned by Maiden Stone for performance at the Inverurie Festival 2004. It was planned for performance by four groups of actors belonging to the Mitchell School of Drama.
Passion Another commission by the Maiden Stone Festival. Four plays performed in four different venues on the same evening.
SITE-SPECIFIC PLAYS
Wild Specimens Specially commissioned for the official opening of the theatre’s Scottish Plant Collectors Garden.
The Wallace Pageant A short pageant performed by children from four Aberdeen primary schools, originally written and performed to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the execution of William Wallace. Now an annual institution.
A King Twice Crowned An irreverent look at the coronation of Scotland’s second great hero - Robert the Bruce.
Beneath the Crown Celebrating 500 years of the University of Aberdeen. Written for performance in King’s College Chapel.
The Wallace Pageant A short pageant performed by children from four Aberdeen primary schools, originally written and performed to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the execution of William Wallace. Now an annual institution.
A King Twice Crowned An irreverent look at the coronation of Scotland’s second great hero -
Beneath the Crown Celebrating 500 years of the University of Aberdeen. Written for performance in King’s College Chapel.
PANTOMIMES
The Haddo Pantomime has been an Aberdeenshire institution for 16 years. It has always been written by Charles Barron as a traditional pantomime, complete with a male Dame, a female Principal Boy and loads of audience participation. Aimed particularly at primary school children, it nevertheless appeals to fun-loving theatre-goers of all ages. All the excitement and magic of genuine pantomime. They include Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Mother Goose, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin.
MISCELLANEOUS
G. & S. Unplugged We always think of Gilbert and Sullivan in terms of their partnership, but both had successful solo careers. This irreverent show looks at how they worked in separation, with excerpts from Sullivan’s ‘solo’ music and Gilbert’s ‘solo’ plays.
Agent 160 Agent 160 was first performed as part of the Aberdeen Writers and Actors Collaboration Festival of New Writing - 12 new plays performed over a period of four months, each receiving three performances.
Agent 160 is Aphra Behn, a real person who lived in Restoration times. She was the first woman anywhere in the world to write plays professionally; she was a spy for the king’s secret service, with the agent number 160; she fell in love with a black slave in Surinam, South America, while spying on the Dutch there; she survived - just - a number of sexual scandals on her return to Britain. She never did get paid for her services to the king. She died young. Click here to read her full story.
A very funny play, catching the satirical and irreverent spirit of a rumbustious period in English history and of a most remarkable woman.
Agent 160 Agent 160 was first performed as part of the Aberdeen Writers and Actors Collaboration Festival of New Writing -
Agent 160 is Aphra Behn, a real person who lived in Restoration times. She was the first woman anywhere in the world to write plays professionally; she was a spy for the king’s secret service, with the agent number 160; she fell in love with a black slave in Surinam, South America, while spying on the Dutch there; she survived -
A very funny play, catching the satirical and irreverent spirit of a rumbustious period in English history and of a most remarkable woman.