Mark Casson

Slater and Moirette are under threat from a mysterious person called Scuadenthorpe.  Pinteresque tale of menace.

Aerobics comes to life as students decide to be a part of a fund-raising performance. Being keen, though, is not the same as being competent and this is apparent after the first rehearsal. However, many rehearsals later the team is ready with movements galore, pumping music, lights and action. 

This play is set in a rehearsal room where contestants arrive and perform air guitar in front of judges. Lots of fun, great music to choose from, plenty of opportunities for actors to enjoy themselves and allows flexibility for a director.

Cast size is flexible.

The school sports team win and go through the national finals but unfortunately the school business class loses the sports team’s money through poor investments. Although the school dance team try to help they come second in the dance competition and all their efforts seem futile until the school book club comes to the rescue.

Many roles are unisex.

Two friends are playing with the basketball. A group of four bullies approach them. This play introduces issues of bullying and potential responses by those being bullied.

A word document within a computer hard drive is the setting for this play. Dylan and Emma get caught up with interpretations of fairy tales of Peter Rabbit, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks as well as meeting a chatterbot which is a internet tool and AVs which are antivirus systems. Science fiction meets fantasy in a dramatic setting.

Flexible cast size.

The deadline’s rapidly approaching for a group of students to finish their history assignment on life in 60s, 70s and 80s New Zealand. Each act introduces a new decade.

Seven speaking roles, and heaps of non-speaking roles. Also incorporates singing, dancing and aerobics.

Three people operate a stall. Customers discuss the goods being sold. After entertaining conversations customers leave happy but the stall holders are ecstatic with what the customers leave behind.

Set in a fruit market with lots of shouting and noise as the fruit sellers sell their fruit. A customer enters the fruit market. This is an ideal opportunity to involve children in a fun, inclusive and entertaining theatre performance.

This is a mad cap, fast moving farce involving lots of action, lots of laughs, gumboots, swedes and a reported crime that has occurred within the city. The police must solve the crime but there are complications. There are opportunities to add extra roles, include local references and include more action.

This is a mad cap, fast moving farce involving lots of action, lots of laughs, gumboots, swedes and a reported crime that has occurred within the city. The police must solve the crime but there are complications. There are opportunities to add extra roles, include local references and include more action.

This is a Christmas play with a difference – Santa Claus has gone missing. Police, elves and media crews all join in the search to find Santa. Lots of action with interviews, present wrapping, production lines, police interviews, tv crews, radio broadcasts.

The abominable snowman’s carrot nose has dry rot and has to be replaced. The huskies stand guard over Carrothead while talking to their friends the Snowpeople when all of a sudden the four evil hungry penguins arrive. Perfect play for snow covered winter fun.

This play is set inside a recording room similar to a number of well known television shows and competitions. People come in and audition in front of a judging panel. The play allows the director to encourage the natural skills of the performers as they take part in the Air Guitar competition. Fun, inclusive and offers lots of potential for an interactive, full on show.

One, Two and Three are in a room when Four and Five arrive and accuse them of a crime. But who has committed the crime? One, Two and Three or Four and Five? Is it a case of mistaken identity? Has there actually been a crime committed? Who lives in the house? Is it One, Two and Three or Four and Five? Why are they all there?

Drayton Slythe is a hospital patient.  He tells the story of buying new shoes and laces, his best friend Charlie Chalker, and the Talent Quest.

After weeks of rehearsal finally word arrives that the performance rights for the school production have been revoked. All is gloom until one student suggests creating a production to showcase the talent of actual students within the school. With little time remaining all agree that this is a great idea and hold auditions.

A black comedy involving a chance encounter on a train and Rachael's race to Gore leaving a gory trail.

Christmas preparations are going very well with production schedules on time and present making in full progress until shock, horror, boom ..... Rudolph is captured by helicopter flying, deer capture humans who fire a net over poor Rudolph and pack him off to the deer capture pen. The sleigh is off balance, Santa and the remaining deer are upset, and worst of all Christmas is in doubt.

In a room in a strife-torn, bombed-out city, a woman reluctantly allows a stranger to enter.  Shelter, warmth and human companionship have almost become unprocurable.

The South Otago Aerobics team plan to do a fundraising display but plans soon start to fall apart.

Frank, just out of prison, Allison, Roxy and Tommy spring a surprise party for Father on his birthday.  Menacing and sardonic, this is a gothic revenge drama.

Adjante works discontentedly in a cafe.  She meets Max there and they return to the apartment that Adjante shares with Henri.  Henri drives a red Chevrolet, spends a good deal of time in the wardrobe, and thinks that he is a hedgehog.  A black comedy.

The Burning of Willy Bruell and the reincarnation of Ben Chuckles is a two-hander set in a crematorium lavatory where two old souls are discussing their past lives and future hopes.  But Willy is about to be burned for the last time.

Theresa and Monica, Siamese twins living in a boarding house run by Mary, are visited by Ben who is keen to move in.

This play is set in a Disenchanted Garden.  Four friends are lost and trying to get home. They take a short cut through what they believe is the Enchanted Garden only to discover it is the Disenchanted Garden. As they try to find their way home they meet a number of familiar characters all of whom seem the opposite of what they should be.

Rua, Ilam and King Edward, the potato carriers, must outrun the chip mongers AND do business with the coal miners.  Perhaps with co-operation they could all live together happily...

There is an argument in a shop. A group of students are standing outside waiting for the bus. This is a series of short 2-4 minutes scripts played out by these students in groups of 2-4 commenting on what had occurred in that shop or what is happening between them at that time.

This play is set in the kingdom. The Queen is unable to speak because of a spell cast upon her. A stranger agrees to a deal with the King to try to help the Queen to speak. There are lots of riddles, period clothing, jokes and crowd noises. Humorous and widely appealing with lots of dress ups for all involved.

An unnamed city has been in a state of civil unrest for years.

The fight for survival in the surreal surrounds tears lives apart.

Two elderly people confront the world, and the Nursing Van from their park bench, with the support of their family of pet decoy ducks.

A before-and-after account, by Mrs Fish, of the Prime Minister's official visit to the urinal where she cleans.

Hens that play piano or lay bricks, dogs that sing and dance, are for sale in the unusual pet shop and entertain the customers as they shop for pets to take home.  This play is set in a pet shop with a difference as the owner sells unusual and fun pets.

This play is set in an acting studio where the teacher is late. The students decide to rehearse activities that they have previously performed. They end with resounding musical songs. Fun for all, loads of energy, lots of speaking and non-speaking roles for students of differing abilities.

Competition to play in the national finals is fierce between the girls’ and boys’ touch seven rugby teams. Off-field antics ensure on-field anxiety with unexpected results. Game is played among the audience with lots of students supporting both teams.

Routine is upset when Eunice invites company for tea on a Tuesday.  A murderously funny two-hander.

Two gnomes discuss life's vicissitudes.

Three friends take a wrong turning while walking to school and end up in Horrorville which is a town full of vampires and zombies, dead plants, skeletons and knocked over pots and discarded clothes. The three friends have to escape or become.......zombies.

Budget cutbacks mean the high school’s performing arts course is to be stopped. Students perform a fashion show to raise funds for the course to continue with a walk off between four competitive individuals.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves are going a performing road tour with the Three Little Pigs. While practising their dance routine Dopey falls into a book case and disappears into a book called Twisted Traditional Fairy Tales. Everyone leaps in to help find him. What follows is an adventure within the book. 

School friends visit the zoo except Walli who has an asthma attack. Friends are sad that Walli can’t be with them visiting the zoo. They decide that since Walli couldn’t come to the zoo then the zoo can come to Walli.