The Wardrobe

Cast: 9f 13m, plus 6 f or m

Staging: built set (the inside of a spacious wardrobe which can turn)

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 72 pages ISBN: 9781848424098Publication Date:
26 Jun 2014
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound, 144 pages ISBN: 9781839042089Publication Date:
26 Jun 2014
Size: 297mm x 210mm£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)
Ebook, 72 pages ISBN: 9781780014845Publication Date:
15 Oct 2014
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
National Theatre Connections, 2014

The Wardrobe

By Sam Holcroft

Paperback £10.99£8.79

A4 Spiral-bound £14.99£11.99

Ebook £10.99£8.79

A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past.

Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know – but is it safe enough?

Sam Holcroft's play The Wardrobe was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK. With a variety of roles for young actors, the play can be performed by a large cast of up to twenty-eight, or a smaller cast with doubling.


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This play is also available as an A4 Edition. With spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes, this format is ideal for directors, stage managers, actors and others to use in rehearsal and production.

To order, simply select the 'A4 Spiral-bound' option above. Please note A4 Editions are only available for delivery within the UK.

'That's what a wardrobe is for - to guard your secrets. Warden, warder, wardrobe. And it is nearly one hundred and fifty years old. So imagine what secrets it has kept guard over in all that time.'

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'Wonderful... a powerful stimulus for creative drama work'

Drama magazine

Cast: 9f 13m, plus 6 f or m

Staging:built set (the inside of a spacious wardrobe which can turn)

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,72 pages ISBN: 9781848424098Publication Date:
26 Jun 2014
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound,144 pages ISBN: 9781839042089Publication Date:
26 Jun 2014
Size: 297mm x 210mm£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)
Ebook,72 pages ISBN: 9781780014845Publication Date:
15 Oct 2014
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Sam Holcroft:

Rules for Living
Women, Power and Politics: Now
While You Lie
Double Feature: One
Dancing Bears
Cockroach
Pink
Charged
Edgar & Annabel
A Mirror

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