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Drama. Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz. Based on the novel by Andre
Gide. An unusually honest and perceptive treatment of a difficult theme
- homosexuality. It is the story of a scrupulous and pleasant young
man who marries a neighbourhood girl against his better judgment.
Over his head hangs the memory of a scandal at school when he was
eleven. He has never dared hope that he is free from the 'abominable
crime' for good. But he marries her in desperation. The rest of The
Immoralist describes the slow destruction of the marriage during
the year they live in a corrupt village in North Africa. For him
it is a joyless descent into a segregated and hated society. She,
in turn faces the loneliness of a woman who has offered love that
cannot be accepted. The wife having learned that she is to bear a
child returns to France, where her husband follows her in the hope
of finding in his old home one place where his own kind will not
seek him out. Together the two of them face their future, armed only
with their own courage and strength. Play.
Olive Chase and Maureen Nield An exciting intriguing play to keep your audience guessing. Susan
kills her unfaithful husband, Leo. With the help of the calculating
Dr Stark she casts suspicion on her sister-in-law, who is in a vulnerable
emotional state exploited in hypnosis by Dr Stark. Mike Kincaid seems
an outsider but has deeply personal reasons for becoming involved
with this family, and is instrumental in bringing a conclusion to
the tangled state of affairs. The Importance of Being Earnest Comedy. Oscar Wilde Jack Worthing is 'Ernest' in town. He wins Gwendolyn's hand, but
Gwendolyn declares that she chiefly loves him for his name - Ernest
- the name Jack has allotted his non-existent brother whose peccadilloes
explain his frequent absences from his country home where lives his
pretty ward, Cecily. Meanwhile, Cecily has decided to marry rake-hell
'Ernest' and when Algernon presents himself in this guise, she immediately
accepts his smitten proposal. However, through some highly improbable
coincidences, all is happily resolved. Period 1890s The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde. Four-act
version reconstructed by Vyvyan Holland Wilde originally wrote this play in four acts, but it was thought
too long and he was asked to reduce it to three. In 1954 the BBC
broadcast the 'lost scene' with Mr Gribsby, an amusing character
with a short scene in the second act. Dramatic critic James Agate
commented, 'The fun in the scene Wilde deleted is better than any
living playwright can do.' The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde | 5m 4f. Classic comedy. 3 interior sets. Wilde's best loved comedy, in which Jack has invented a fictional
younger brother named Emest so, as this alias, he can live in London
free from all responsibilities. He decides it is necessary to reclaim
Jack and 'kill off' Ernest when he falls in love with a wealthy heiress,
Gwendolen. Unfortunately, his opportunity to propose marriage to
Gwendolen comes before he has told her his real name, and she is
thrilled with the proposal because she has always been convinced
she is destined to marry a man named Ernest. First performed in 1895. Comedy. Beth Henley 4 men, 3 women. Unit Set The entire action of the play takes place in Kandall Kingsley's
beautiful and mysterious garden. Kandall's youngest daughter, Pandora,
is to be wed to Edvard Lunt, a worldly artist twice her age. Kandall
does not think the match to be at all suitable. Flora, Pandora's
older sister, who is expecting a child at any moment, plots to break
off the marriage. Unexpectedly, Sidney Lunt, the groom's son, arrives
with a note from his mother in which she vows to throw herself from
an attic window if the marriage goes forward. Even Reverend Lawrence
who has come to wed the couple has secret hopes and desperate desires.
Throughout this wildly funny and moving play the characters struggle
heroically with the impossibility of finding an allegiance between
their civilized duties and primitive desires. |