SCRIPT LICENSING
All shows listed under ‘Script Licensing’ are available for both professional and amateur theatre companies to perform in the UK or world-wide. Please call or email Ovation for availability and costs.
COMEDIES
Flat Out
All the classical elements of a British farce updated for today’s audience. This high energy comedy
entertains through exaggerated and improbable situations.
Cast: 4 Male / 4 Female. Single Set. Running Time: One hour forty minutes plus interval.
Condo-Monium
A Modern Day farce set in New York City (this is the American version of Flat Out)
Cast: 4 Male / 4 Female. Single Set. Running Time: One hour forty minutes plus intermission.
PLAYS
Treating Odette
Three handed one-act drama showing the collaboration between English actress Anna Neagle
and the wartime heroine Odette Churchill.
Cast: 3 Female. Single Set. Running Time: Eighty minutes.
Margaret – Rebel Royal
One Act drama based on the true events that happened during the relationship between Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones.
Cast: 1 Male / 3 Female. Multiple Settings. Running Time: One hour fifteen minutes.
Iceberg Right Ahead
Three-Act Drama set onboard RMS Titanic in the days before and after the tragedy.
Cast: 5 Male / 4 Female. Multiple Settings. Running Time: Two hours ten minutes plus interval.
One-Act Drama plus presentation. The interrogation of witnesses (passengers & crew) at the 1912 London Inquiry.
The drama will be followed by an illustrated Titanic presentation – the truth behind the headlines.
Cast: 6 Male / 3 Female. Single Set. Running Time: 120 minutes including Q&A.
PLAYS WITH MUSIC
Wallis… A Certain Person
Drama, depicting the relationship between Wallis Simpson and the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII)
with four original songs.
Cast: 5 Male / 4 Female. Multiple Sets. Running Time: Two hours ten minutes plus interval.
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
Play with ten ‘jukebox’ songs set at the time of Elvis Presley’s only visit to the United Kingdom.
Cast: 5 Male / 4 Female. Three Sets. Running Time: One hour forty five minutes plus interval.
MUSICALS
It’s Only Make Believe
70’s Jukebox Musical set in a derelict cinema.
Cast: 4 Male / 5 Female. Single Set. Running Time: One hour fifty minutes plus interval.
Summer In The City
60’s Jukebox Musical set in a Carnaby Street Coffee Bar.
Winner of ‘Best Musical Production’ at the 2023 London Pub Theatre Awards.
Cast: 2 Male / 4 Female. Single Set. Running Time: One hour forty minutes plus interval.
The Young Ones
Stage version of the iconic 60’s British pop movie
Cast: 5 Male / 5 Female. Two Sets. Running Time: One hour forty minutes plus interval.
TALKS
Titanic – Fascinating Stories Behind the Maritime Disaster
Self-confessed ‘Titanorak’ John Plews has researched the White Star Line’s infamous tragedy since working on the Cunard ship QE2 back in the Seventies. John presents an illustrated talk of 60 minutes, including an audience Q&A.
Sixty Years in Showbiz
Join Writer, Director and Entertainer John Plews on his journey from holiday camp bluecoat to London theatre owner. An illustrated talk that will take you around the world on some famous ships and in the company of some famous faces. Sixty minutes incl Q&A.
To Sea or Not to Sea…a Cruise could be the Answer
John & Katie Plews met over fifty years ago whilst working on the Cunard liner the QE2. In 1990, they returned to the ‘seven seas’ as passengers and this talk gives advice to those contemplating a cruise for the first time. Fully illustrated – Sixty minutes with Q&A.