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Erstwhile English and Drama teacher,
Andrew Rice-Oxley, has written and produced numerous scripts and stage
adaptations for school, church and the amateur stage. School productions
include Hamlet, Gilbert & Sullivan's
Iolanthe,
The School for Scandal
and
his own streamlined adaptations of The Hobbit
and
Treasure Island. |
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Andrew Rice-Oxley,
in his study. |
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Andrew has written
scripts for church performance, which include short pieces such as
The Gift (for Bible Sunday),
Father Christmas's Emergency and
Bigmouth Gets Ditched; also the full
length Passion Play On the Edge,
written to mark the Millennium and performed
in St Nicholas Church by members of
the Blundellsands Group of Churches in April 2000.
Comedies written for adults (no, not 'adult' plays), and performed in schools or
church halls, include his four coarse parodies:
Truelove Conquers All, The True
Adventures of Robin Hood, True
Treasure, and The
True Story of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table.
Plays written for
children, in addition to his various sketches for church performance, include
Queen in Boots (a spin on The
Emperor's Clothes) and The Secret Weapon
(written for the Guides and Cub Scouts respectively), and the large scale
fairy tale play The Rings of Noumen,
most successfully produced by the Phoenix Youth Theatre in 1986.
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Andrew's
published work includes
Ten Original Short
Scripts for Drama/Theatre Studies 'A' Level,
Multi-Purpose Drama/English Workbook for Key
Stages 3-4, and 'Two Short Comedies' -
The Ratbusters and
The
Dastardly Deeds of Lord Swindleham - published by
SchoolPlay Productions. A religious sketch,
The Decision is Yours, which satirises quiz shows and the
trivialisation of serious questions, has also been published, by Nimbus
Press, in a collection of sketches for the new Millennium called
Platform
Souls.
Unpublished and unperformed work includes religious plays
Spectators (a modern version of
the 'Woman Taken in Adultery'), and Stan
and sequel Chris, dramas which
explore Christian theology in a contemporary context. Other unpublished
work, which awaits the right entrepreneur, is a satirical sketch about
Bill Clinton's escapades - "Don't Do That, Mr
President!" - and musical settings of songs, with readings,
from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. (Approved by the Tolkien Estate).
Andrew is an active Member of the
Lucilla Dramatic Society.
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