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    George....the Hero
    George....the Hero
    George....the Hero
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    George....the Hero

    By Martin Alcock

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    Meet George.
    She’s feisty, good natured and has the knack of walking into trouble.
    And at the moment, there’s plenty of trouble to go round
    Bigg City is alive with rumors, there’s a smell of burning coming from the woods.
    And Baroness Bertha has just come up with a devious plan to get her hands on the people’s money....

    DRAGON TAX!

    Well...you know what it’s like with Dragons. They’re so cute at first.
    Then they grow up.
    And Grow..
    And Grow......

    The classic legend hits the stage in this new version of an old story with a gallery of eccentric and hilarious characters

    “A lot of fun...we liked this very much” Samuel French Ltd

    “Great Fun” Children’s Author David Wood

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Alcock
    Release dateMay 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301937530
    George....the Hero
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    Martin Alcock

    Martin Alcock was born in Stoke on Trent, England,1961 and escaped from school unnoticed at the age of 16 in 1978 with two unimpressive O levels in English Language and Literature. Shortly after that, his mother frog-marched him into the offices of the local weekly newspaper, where he was taken on as a cub reporter. He remained there for 5 years, reporting on magistrates courts, cattle markets, lost cats, local amateur dramatic productions and taking names at funerals. He learnt to type on a cast iron Imperial typewriter from the 1940’s. He then moved into industry, writing press releases about industrial air conditioners. He lasted six months before being dismissed. For which he was very grateful. After university and drama school and a brief career as an actor, Martin was finally persuaded to GROW UP AND GET A PROPER BLOODY JOB teaching Performing Arts at Stoke on Trent College. The 19 years he has spent doing this are easily the most satisfying, exciting, stimulating, frustrating, depressing and soul-destroying (sometimes all before 10am on the same day) years he has spent to date. Martin is currently looking to leave the British Education System while there still is one. Martin has been writing for some years, mainly plays for his students to perform (of which he has written about 12). He has had some success in the grown up world too. In the prestigious Bruntwood/Manchester Royal Exchange competition in 2008, his play HERE I SIT ALL ALONE, I THINK I’LL PLAY MY XYLOPHONE made it through to the last 60 of 1600 submitted plays. His short play THE SMOKE FROM FAR SHUTT was selected as one of seven out of 170 submitted to be performed at the Arundel Festival Theatre Trail this August alongside a new play by Simon Brett. This last effort earned him a writers fee of £150 – his first paid work as a writer. In 2009, as part of Anthony Gormley’s “One And Other” Project Martin was one of 1000 people chosen to spend an hour on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square. He chose to spend his hour as his comedy idol Tony Hancock (complete with homemade blue plaque). This summer he can be seen in the Co-Operative British Youth Film Academy Feature Film “Olivia Twist”, an updated version of the Dickens Classic, as Bob Fagin (He has since got rid of the beard).

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      Book preview

      George....the Hero - Martin Alcock

      Meet George.

      She’s feisty, good natured and has the knack of walking into trouble.

      And at the moment, there’s plenty of trouble to go round

      Bigg City is alive with rumors, there’s a smell of burning coming from the woods.

      And Baroness Bertha has just come up with a devious plan to get her hands on the people’s money....

      DRAGON TAX!

      Well...you know what it’s like with Dragons. They’re so cute at first.

      Then they grow up.

      And Grow..

      And Grow......

      The classic legend hits the stage in this new version of an old story with a gallery of eccentric and hilarious characters

      A lot of fun...we liked this very much Samuel French Ltd

      Great Fun Children’s Author David Wood

      GEORGE......THE HERO

      by Martin Alcock

      Copyright 2013 Martin Alcock

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      THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES

      Downloading of this play script does not imply consent for theatrical performance. For permission to perform GEORGE THE HERO please contact the author on m_alcock@hotmail.com

      ACT ONE

      ENTER LESTER (He is a Jester complete with cap and bells)

      Lester:

      Good evening ladies and gentlemen

      You’re such a lovely sight

      The doors have all been bolted

      So you’re in here for the night.

      We have a tale to tell to you

      Shall turn your knees to jelly

      It’ll only take an hour or two

      -and there’s nothing on the telly.

      So come back to a mythic time

      And a land far far away

      Of rivers deep and mountains high

      And forests dark and grey.

      Our hero lives within the woods

      She’s just like you and me

      But special times need special folks

      As we shall shortly see.

      A cottage by a little stream

      Is where we start our story

      Where George will take the first small step

      On the rocky road to glory…..

      (The lights come up on two young men, MAVIS and DOREEN and GEORGE, their sister, gathered around a small bed in which their mother is lying)

      George: How is she?

      Mavis: I’m not sure.

      George: Is she asleep?

      Mavis: Dunno…I’ll ask. (Bellowing) MUM! (Mum wakes with a start) GEORGE WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU’RE ASLEEP!

      George: (Angrily) Mavis! It’s alright mum, I’m here.

      Mum: (Weakly) George…is that you?

      George: Yes, mum. How you feeling?

      Mum: Not good, love. I don’t think it’ll be long, now.

      Doreen: What won’t?

      Mum: (Patiently) Until I….leave you.

      Doreen: Oh…….(after thinking)……mum?

      Mum: Yes, love?

      Doreen: D’you really think you ought to be traveling in your condition? I mean, you’re really, really ill.

      Mum: No, love, What I mean is….oh, never mind. (She looks round at the three of them) I’m just sorry I wasn’t a better mother to you.

      George: (Gently) You’re a great mum. It can’t have been easy looking after the three of us when dad died. Mum….

      Mum: Yes, love?

      George: What was dad like? We never really knew him.

      Mavis: Yeah, and why did he give us those stupid names?

      Doreen: Yeah, he must have really hated us.

      Mum: Well…George…Mavis….Doreen… it’s like this…..

      George: I think I know, mum. Dad wanted us to know that life is tough. That it’s important to show the world what you’re like on the inside. He wanted us to be strong. Isn’t that it, mum?

      Mum: Erm…not really…no.

      George: Oh. Well why, then?

      Mum: He was barmy.

      George: Barmy?

      Mum: Completely off his Conkers. Mad as a radish.

      George (Uncomfortably): Really…

      Mum: Six twigs short of a bundle. Daft as a frog sandwich.

      George: Right….

      Mum: Towards the end of his life, he thought he was a small squirrel called Jeremy.

      George: Oh. Well, I suppose that explains why he fell out of the oak tree.

      Mavis: What? Was someone after his nuts? (He laughs uproariously) Geddit? Nuts?

      (George glares at him. Doreen scuffs him round the back of the head)

      Mum: Oh well, never mind. I just want you to know that I’ve always been proud of you kids. Particularily you, George. (Whispering) Mavis and Doreen are both good boys but let’s face it love, the men in this family have never really had much …..upstairs …if you know what I mean.

      (George and mum cast a glance at Mavis and Doreen who smile back, vacantly, unaware that they are being talked about.)

      Mum: That’s why I want you to carry out my last wishes.(Slowly, painfully, mum reaches beneath herself, pulls out a small bag of money and hands it to George). That’s every penny we’ve got in the world.

      George: Why are you giving it to me?

      Mum: I’ve been lying on it for half an hour, It’s killing me back.

      George: Yes, but why me?

      Mum: This is the last payment on the farm. Our final year’s taxes. Once we pay this off, the farm belongs to us and no-one can take it away. Someone’s got to take this to Bigg City in time for taxing day next month.

      George: But Bigg City’s a week’s journey away! Through DragonScar Woods! It’s dangerous!

      Mum: I know it is, but it’s important that it’s you. You have to go, George, I’m depending on you. And anyway, who else do you think

      I could send?

      (George and Mum once more cast a glance at Mavis and Doreen, who smile vacantly back.)

      George: Right….I get your point.

      Mum: You’ll be fine, George. (Her voice is growing weaker) I know that you’ll make me proud of you. Pay the taxes. Save the farm. And please…..look after the boys. (She coughs gently) Goodbye love….and remember, I’m counting on you

      (Gently, her eyes close and she is still.Slowly, sadly, George and Doreen pull the bedsheet over their Mum’s face. Almost immediately, her hand appears and pulls it back down)

      Mum: (With a bit more strength) I’m not gone yet! Honestly! Can’t an old lady get a bit of rest for five minutes….(Suddenly and very finally she dies).

      (Mavis, Doreen and George look at each other, then, once more pull the sheet over her head. This time it

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