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Play. Eric Chappell Imagine returning from a pleasant anniversary celebration to find
that your house has been burgled, the burglar is still in the house
and has you convinced, for a while, that he is a policeman and then,
once his true identity is known, he reveals that he knows all kinds
of uncomfortable truths about you. Well, that burglar is none other
than Spriggs, who succeeds, in Theft, Eric Chappell's witty comedy-thriller,
in disrupting two seemingly happy marriages and one formerly strong
friendship. Ray Cooney and John Chapman When harassed advertising executive Timothy Westerby hits his head
on the morning of his daughter's society wedding, he awakes to find
himself in the company of Polly Perkins, a 1920's Flapper girl straight
out of his current advertising campaign. It soon becomes all too
clear that no-one else can see or hear her, and when another bump
on the head transports Timothy back to 1926 and the Savoy hotel,
the carefully planned wedding preparations disintegrate into chaos
as friends and family attempt to lead Timothy back to reality and
his daughter down the aisle before the newly arrived 'In-Laws' abandon
the wedding. Comedy. Terence Frisby Robert is the newspaper food-and-wine connoisseur who dabbles in
female delectations. As the play opens Robert says goodbye to one
girl when he's picked up by another who's a match for any roué.
The romance bubbles along despite the contrast between sophisticated
gourmet and modern girl. Youth wins and Robert finds himself permanently
in love while Marion's heart belongs to a pop musician who finally
catches up with her and drags her home. Leslie Sands, adapted from the novel by Emile Zola A skilful adaptation of the 19th Century novel with a special twist
to Zola's original ending. This well-paced and gripping tale of retribution
provides a penetrating study of sexual obsession and guilt. The play
tells the story of the secret affair between Thérèse
Raquin and her husband's best friend, Laurent, and reveals the strength
of the passion which incites them to murder. The murder, however,
leads to neither happiness nor liberation, but to the destruction
of their relationship and their eventual downfall. Play. Bettine Manktelow Despite his lowly origins Mr Dalrymple has done well, and now that
he is elderly and ailing speculation inevitably arises as to the
disposal of his money among his three granddaughters. One, Peggy,
neurotic and inhibited, is driven to take drastic steps to secure
the money but becomes involved fatally with the old man's self-seeking
male nurse. Peggy's misdeeds rebound on her with a vengeance, and
the end is tragic, eerie and savagely ironic. Comedy. David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr The Farndale Avenue ladies and their long-suffering stage manager
Gordon attempt lift-off with their dramatic society's unique production
of this sci-fi thriller that will have the hysterical audience on
the edge of their seats. Play. J. B. Priestley Just before dawn the play's characters - who represent every stratum
of society - come to the wall overlooking a strange city whose gate
is shut against them. At daybreak they are admitted and towards the
end of the day some have found it to be the ideal earth has never
achieved. So that everyone may know of this attainable perfection
two of them make the sacrifice of leaving the city to return to their
sinful world. Book by Neil Simon. Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Carol Bayer
Sager America's premier funny man and the Tony-award winning composer have produced this funny, romantic, hit show about an established composer and his relationship with a zany aspiring young female lyricist that is full of laughs and delightful music. First presented in Britain at the Shaftesbury Theatre, it had a long, very successful run. Although a musical, it may be presented equally successfully by small dramatic societies as well as musical societies. Play. Clare McIntyre Roanna sees no reason to get involved with other people's problems. She's furious when her son, Jonathan, tries to help their neighbour. Laura, on the other hand, is determined to help unemployed Eddie. But Eddie smells a rat and thinks Laura should confront the truth. Just who is helping whom? And does 'helping' involve doing what you want to do - or what the other person really needs? Play. Jean Anouilh, translated by Lucienne Hill Two beautiful heiresses provide bait for thieves and adventurers,
but things become serious when one girl falls in love with a young
thief. Being a man of honour he rejects her love, and keeps his mind
firmly on burglary. She, however, outwits him and the play ends happily
as love conquers all. This light-hearted play combines ironic dialogue,
wise humour, entertaining music and mime. Play. Alan Ayckbourn Barbara contentedly occupies the pristine, ordered, male-free ground-floor
flat of her Victorian terraced house. Below, lives Gilbert - postman,
handyman, bore - who secretly paints a lurid, nude study of Barbara.
The top flat Barbara lets to school friend Nikki and her fiancé Hamish,
despite the fact that Barbara and Hamish have taken an instant dislike
to one another. But, ever life's victim, Nikki is destined to suffer
when Hamish and Barbara embark on a night of violent, uninhibited
passion. Comedy. Eleanor Bayer and Leo Bayer. The story is about a new bride on a honeymoon in a up-market Florida
hotel suite. Little did she know that her husband was combining business
with wedlock by taking her to a company convention. Instead of swimming
in the surf, lazing in the sun and wooing in the chamber, she finds
herself caught up in a mess of big deals and little jealousies. Well,
if you know Miss Holm you can guess it's a fair bet for her to upset
the routine of the convention. She says the wrong things to the right
people, turns the big meeting into a disaster and strikes a great
blow for the freedom of the corporation female. She invites a free-thinking
philosopher, who is known as a corporation killer, to speak to the
convention. The delegates are under the mistaken impression that
he is an economist who writes for the The Wall Street Journal.
The bride insults the stuffy wife of the company's most important
customer and generally manages to create havoc and hilarity wherever
she goes. By the end of the play the bride has, of course, managed
to get the contract for her husband and has established her own independence.
All of this is done with great warmth and humour. Charlotte Anker and Irene Rosenberg : Drama Joan Simmons, the wife of an American diplomat posted to a Latin American capital, becomes increasingly attached to Gatita, an orphan girl whom she discovers scavaging in the Simmons' rubbish bins. Taking pity on the girl, Joan welcomes her into the household as one of the family in spite of her husband's protestations. When political tensions arise, the family is returned to Washington accompanied by Gatita. In the American capital her streetwise behaviour begins to influence the Simmons' daughters, leading to increasing strain as Gatita's actions become more and more outrageous. The crisis point is finally reached in the play's powerful climax and we gradually become aware of the haunting parallels between the Simmons' "Third Child" and the events within the Third World country from which she originates. Play. Noel Coward Demobbed in 1919, Frank settles in Clapham with his wife Ethel,
their three children, Reg, Queenie and Vi, Ethel's mother, and Frank's
sister. The respectable working-class home with its commonness, its
sterling qualities and its humour is vividly depicted as the family
encompass marriage, separation and sorrow in the seventeen year span
between the end of the World War I and the looming Second World War.
Period 1919-1937 (edition includes The Good Thief & Rum
& Vodka) - Conor McPherson Three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell us in
overlapping monologues of their inextricably linked lives and the
eventful week which was to change things for good ... First staged
at the Bush Theatre, 1996. 'A touching, marvellously entertaining
play which tells a gripping tale with assured panache ... This is
a piece of real richness' Daily Telegraph. Poetic Drama. Christopher Fry. A group of semi-barbaric Jutes have just returned to their farmstead with a prisoner captured in a raid on Britain. Preparations are made to kill him, but Hoel interests and puzzles his captors with his strange talk about a God unknown to them. The more he talks the more they listen. When the time comes to kill the Briton there is disagreement among the Jutes. One of the captors insists on giving consideration to what this strange Christian has to say about his religion. Though Hoel is at last dispatched in traditional fashion, the seeds of doubt have been sown, and at the end, when the voices of St. Augustine's men are heard singing in the distance, we feel that the final work of conversion to Christianity is about to take effect. |