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New Year Sale! 25% off all Mind Maps at the Splendid Shop

To celebrate/commiserate the new academic year, we are offering a mighty 25% OFF all of our unique selection of theatrical mind maps.

Until 31 October 2025 all three sizes of our full-colour, fully laminated mind maps will be available at a reduced price (while stocks last):

A4 £12 £9 each

A3 £20 £15 each

A2 £30 £22.50 each

All prices include shipping. Please note we are temporarily suspending our 4-pack A4 and A3 bundle offers for the duration of the sale – any multiple is 25% off.

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Midsummer Mechanicals and Rough Magic scripts now available to buy and perform

We’re delighted to announce that the full scripts of our Olivier Award-nominated collaborations with Shakespeare’s Globe, Midsummer Mechanicals and Rough Magic are now available to buy and to license for performance.

These Shakespeare-flavoured new comedies have been delighting audiences at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London since summer 2022, and we thought it was time to share the joy with readers and performers all over the world.

Midsummer Mechanicals reunites the famous amateur theatre-makers whose ‘Pyramus & Thisbe’ electrified Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, as they take on their greatest theatrical challenge: putting on another play.

Rough Magic takes us into the world of Shakespeare’s supernatural creatures as three witches attempt to move on from the disastrous consequences of what has become known in the magical world as ‘The Macbeth Incident’.

Price: £15 each (includes shipping worldwide) 

SPECIAL OFFER! Buy both plays for £25!

Both plays are now available to license for performance. To find out more, and read an excerpt, head to our licensing page.

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Ever wished there were new plays for your students to perform?

Then you’re in luck! We present ‘There’s a leak! (and other stories)’, a collection of  original plays by regular Splendid adaptor Ben Hales (in collaboration with regular Splendid director Lucy Cuthbertson) – created for and with young performers.

Meet four darkly comic plays for casts of all sizes:

There’s a leak!
Twelve year old Elsa and her sarcastic cat Igor are having a perfectly normal walk into town when they discover a highly abnormal leak in the pavement. Luckily a wide range of perfectly normal characters are standing by to help…
SO EVERYTHING IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE FINE.
Cast size: 7-20+. Duration: 45-60mins.

Poundtown
The world’s richest man returns to the country’s smallest town, promising wealth and prosperity for all. For a price that ABSOLUTELY NO REASONABLE PERSON would EVER CONSIDER PAYING for a SECOND. Would they?
Cast size: 10-30+. Duration: 60-80mins plus interval.

Suffrajitsu
The true story of the Bodyguard, the Suffrajette women who saw that the fight for votes would sometimes involve actual fighting.
Cast size: 8 plus multiple extras. Duration: 20-30mins

MeAndYoutopia
A mysterious island with a mystical doorway. Two very different groups of travellers seeking the same destination. A collision is inevitable. But that’s just the start of the story.
Created with a cast of Yr5 (9-10 years old). Recommended for younger performers, with parts adaptable for a range of abilities and confidence. Cast size: 12+. Duration: 20-30mins

 

Each play is available to license for performance. To find out more about each play, and read excerpts and character lists, head to our Licensing page.

The paperback collection (ISBN 978-1-917597-15-9) costs £25 inc shipping worldwide, and for the first time we’re offering an ebook edition (ISBN 978-1-917597-17-3)  for £20. Both are available now from the Splendid Shop.

Splendid's 'The Government Inspector' script

The script for Kerry Frampton’s creative adaptation of Gogol’s The Government Inspector (ISBN 978-1-917597-01-2) is now available for £15 from the shop, along with the Government Inspector Streaming Super Pack (£55) which includes 1-year access to the streaming video plus physical copies of the script and education packs.

Our Macbeth and Antigone scripts are back in stock in our attractive new paperback editions.

20 year anniversary 20% off SALE at the Splendid Shop!

Yes, dear Splendid website-users, for the first time in 20 years we’re offering you actual money off at the Splendid Shop!

Just use the coupon code splendid20 when checking out to receive 20% off the price of all mind maps, tip sheets, scripts, education and super packs. (Streaming videos don’t get a discount apart from Streaming Super Packs)

This coupon code is active now, and you can use it as many times as you like up until the end of the sale on 31 December 2024.

It’s a good time to invest in Splendid stuff because…

At last! ISBNs for Splendid Scripts!

We now have International Standard Book Numbers for all of our existing published Splendid scripts, which means they become eligible for use in exam work.

The ISBNs apply to all of our spiral-bound script editions, which include any already purchased, and the numbers have now been added to the product pages of the Splendid Shop for reference, but here they are just in case:

THE TRIAL SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-02-9
MEDEA SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-03-6
EVERYMAN SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-04-3
ANTIGONE SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-05-0
WOYZECK SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-06-7
THE ODYSSEY SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-07-4
MACBETH SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-08-1
METAMORPHOSIS SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-09-8
THE ORESTEIA SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND)  978-1-917597-10-4
DR FAUSTUS SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-11-1
UBU SCRIPT (SPIRAL BOUND) 978-1-917597-12-8

(Our Government Inspector script is coming soon.)

Splendid in 2025/26

Sadly we have once again decided that we will not be offering a touring production this academic year (Autumn 2025/ Spring 2026).

We are all aware of the way the environment has changed in the last 20 years for drama in education. Many of you are being asked to provide more for your students with fewer resources, and it is the same for us. 

It has always been important to us that our sessions are affordable to all schools and colleges. In recent years it has been increasingly difficult to make the performance tour cost-effective both for our clients and for us.

We have therefore reluctantly decided against returning with a new production, and instead use the time to explore alternative options for funding and operating our performance-based work in future.

Our workshops continue to be available (booking around the busy lives of our practitioners) and of course our range of streaming productions and teaching resources is online and ready whenever you need it.

Autumn CPDs with Kerry Frampton

One of the things we would like to do with our non-touring time in Autumn 2024 is to schedule some more CPD sessions with (Splendid Artistic Director and All-Round Drama Geek) Kerry Frampton.

Kerry can offer workshops for teachers in all our regular workshop areas, plus bespoke sessions (within reason!), and we’re looking at a few different formats to make these happen. 

If you would be interested in being part of a CPD session with Kerry (whether hosting one of your own, or joining an open event) please use one of our lovely enquiry forms to tell us everything…

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Application for performance should be made in writing, before rehearsal to info@splendidproductions.co.uk. No performance of this edition may be given, and no alterations may be made in the title or the text without the author’s prior written consent. Full details can be found here: https://splendidproductions.co.uk/license_splendid_scripts/

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Rent any 2 of our streaming training titles ‘Splendid Style: Being Splendid‘, ‘Devising Political Theatre online CPD‘ or ‘Practical Guide to Brecht online CPD‘ and save £5. Rent all 3 and save £10!

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A4 & A3 size 4-pack discounts

Save money on A4-sized Mind Maps and Top Tip Sheets and A3-sized Mind Maps!

A4 Mind Map/Top Tip 4-pack: £40 (choose any 4 titles save £8 – combinations of Mind Maps and Top Tips are fine)
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Scale up your discounts! Choose titles in multiples of 4 for best price, eg. buy 16 x A4 titles, save £40! 

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Digital & Physical Production Resources

Streaming video rentals:
£7.50 for 30 days’ access
£35.00 for 1 year’s access (includes optional DVD, and multiple title offer applies)

Scripts (physical product): £15
Education Packs (digital & physical): £5 /£12

Special offer Production Streaming Super Packs (1-year stream, optional DVD, script & education pack by title): £55

Special offer Multiple title discounts: 2xtitles £60 / 3xtitles £85 / 4xtitles £110 / 5xtitles £140 / 6xtitles £160 / 7xtitles £180 / 8xtitles £195 / 9xtitles £210 / 10xtitles £230 / 11xtitles £245

 

Mind Maps

available in 3 sizes, laminated for extra protection

A4: £12  / A3: £20  / A2: £30

Performance Skills Top Tip Sheets

laminated, A4 size only

Special offer Mind Map 4-pack 

Any 4 x A4 Mind Maps and/or Tip Sheets: £40
Any 4 x A3 Mind Maps: £70

Splendid Streaming Training videos

Splendid Style: Being Splendid £35 for 1 year’s access

Online CPDs: £20 for 30 days’ access
Devising Political Theatre online CPD
Practical Guide to Bertolt Brecht online CPD

Special offer rent any 2 training video titles, save £5 – rent any 3 titles save £10

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2 titles: £60
3 titles: £85
4 titles: £110
5 titles: £140
6 titles: £160
7 titles: £180
8 titles: £195
9 titles: £210
10 titles: £230
11 titles: £245

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