THIRTEEN O'CLOCKfor lower level students. Suitable for primary school learnersChris is a boy who has a problem with time. He is always late. He can never finish anything on time, and he can never remember when he should be doing something. There are not enough hours in the days for him. One day, the clock strikes thirteen times and everything is changed, everything is slightly different. The world and time stands still. There is only now. There is no future and no consequences or penalties. At first Chris loves the freedom of being able to do whatever he wants but, when he meets some other characters trapped there, he realises that he has to escape and return home.
JUST ANOTHER (HOLLYWOOD VICTORIAN) BLOCKBUSTER for lower level studentsSuitable for older primary and younger secondary school learnersJ.A.B. is a comic play within a comic play. Very loosely based on three classic stories from British Literature: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Frankenstein and Dracula. J.A.B. is given the full ETC treatment when a small, deservedly unsuccessful, charmingly inept film company is mistakenly given the job of preparing the script for next summer's biggest Hollywood epic.
J.A.B. includes a full range of Hollywood heroes that are ever so slightly wrong; such as New Jersey Jones and Beetleman. J.A.B. is two plays in one and it both treats the classic literature, is a spoof of the Hollywood blockbuster and also looks at the nature of writing itself and all this in our established ETC comedy style.
FAMILY MATTERSfor lower intermediate and intermediate level studentsSuitable for secondary and high school learnersFamily Matters is a comic satirical play that takes an exaggerated and at times hilarious look at the family and at many of the problems, the stresses and conflicts that happen there.
Family Matters looks at the point of view of various family members, at various times throughout history both in the past, present and future and through a series of sketches that form a narrative Family Matters looks at something most of us just take for granted – again in our comic ETC style.
CHECKMATE"a who might have done what"for higher intermediate and advanced level studentsSuitable for high school and adult learnersCheckmate is a surreal spoof somewhere between a satire of an Agatha Christie detective story and an exaggerated send up of a TV soap.
Checkmate is both a conventional comedy play and an interactive piece of theatre which is full of humour and parodies the classic murder in the country mansion by hand unknown in a modern, surreal way while still remaining a fond pastiche of that type of theatre.
Imagine the board game, Cluedo, written as a soap opera for day time television and you approach the world of Checkmate, a new play and a slightly new direction but still in ETC's home style.
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