Plays with Historical Content

A comedy which uses flashbacks to the origins of theatre, then explores its development up to Elizabethan times. Two narrators lead us through a fascinating journey of short scenes which reveal the theatrical movers and shakers - and show us what some playwrights really thought about each other!

This play for children can be purchased as a download-only PDF version (Acrobat).

This play for children includes some performing rights within the price. Further performing rights must be purchased should you wish to extend your performances. See the performing rights page for further details

Sausages For Tea is a mini play set in 1940, during World War 2. It tells the short story of one family's experiences during an air raid in a fictional town. The play enables children to gain some insight into the lives of children at that time, and to learn some historical facts about life on the Home Front during the Second World War.

This play is intended for use as a classroom resource, but could easily be performed as part of a whole school history day.

This script also includes:

•Full Cast/Character List

•Production Notes - with suggestions for props, costumes, and staging

•Follow-On Activities for further work in the classroom

[Note: This edition which includes production notes and follow-on activities is not available in paperback]

Note: This play for children does not include performance rights within the price. If you are giving a performance of this play, then you will need a performing rights licence. Click 'ADD TO BASKET' to purchase a licence that allows you to give ONE performance of this play, valid for 2 months. For longer performance runs, please contact info@artsonthemove.co.uk

The Big Ship Sails is an emotional play about the British child migration scheme of the 1940s and 1950s. Powerful as a performance, the play is an excellent resource for investigating real events of recent British history from the perspective of those involved. It also allows children the opportunity to include singing, mime and tableaux, and to perform in non-speaking roles.

This script also includes:

•Full Cast/Character List

•Production Notes - with suggestions for props, costumes, and staging

•Follow-On Activities for further work in the classroom

[Note: This edition which includes production notes and follow-on activities is not available in paperback]

Note: This play for children does not include performance rights within the price. If you are giving a performance of this play, then you will need a performing rights licence. Click 'ADD TO BASKET' to purchase a licence that allows you to give up to 5 performances of this play, valid for 6 months. For longer performance runs, please contact info@artsonthemove.co.uk

An emotional play about the British child migration scheme during the 1940s and 1950s. Based upon actual recollections, the play focuses on the lives of children from different families and explores the reasons for, and effects of, this devastating exportation programme. Powerful as a performance, and an excellent resource for investigating events of recent British history from the perspective of those involved.

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This play for children includes some performing rights within the price. Further performing rights must be purchased should you wish to extend your performances. See the performing rights page for further details

A powerful, informative and moving play which dramatises the lives and times of Victorian children working in the cotton mills. Viewed through the eyes of the young workers, we hear of their hardships and learn about the difficulties and dangers they faced each working day - and understand how their lives gradually improved. Performances provide opportunities to develop mime and movement skills, and to include a number of children in non-speaking roles.

Paperback version currently unavailable. Download version available.

If you would like to be informed when
the paperback version becomes available
please register here

This play for children can be purchased as a download-only PDF version (Acrobat).

This play for children includes some performing rights within the price. Further performing rights must be purchased should you wish to extend your performances. See the performing rights page for further details