Do
Not Disturb. Comedy.
Michael Pertwee Jay wants to leave his past behind and
start a new life. When he moves into his new flat his only
wish is solitude, but the girl next door plagues him with
her suicide threats, his ex-wife insists on leading him to
Jesus, and his secretary declares her undying passion. Jay's
women pursue, attack, seduce and harrass him and he only
wants to be alone - or does he? A very funny, witty play
with fast and well-timed comic action. Doctor
Faustus : Christopher Marlowe
The classic story of the learned Doctor
Faustus, who grows bored with conventional scholarship so
turns to magic in his search for ultimate knowledge. He
makes a pact with Mephistopheles, agent of the Devil, that
Mephistopheles will do Faustus's bidding for twenty four
years, at the end of which Faustus will be carried down to
Hell. Faustus fails to discover any ultimate truths as he is
manipulated by Mephistopheles' persuasive tricks. Utterly
unfulfilled and damned Faustus remains painfully aware of
the presence of Divine mercy, but is finally unable to save
his soul. First performed in 1594. Dog
and Wolf (in Czech
Plays) : Daniela Fischerova. Trans AG. Brain A recreation of the trial of the
15th-century French poet François Villon for murder.
The author - the leading female Czech playwright - weaves
together several moments in time so that the trial is
attended both by the murdered man and by present day
reporters. Dogg's
Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth.
Double bill. Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard explains that the comma
between the two titles serves to unite the plays: 'the first
is hardly a play at all without the second which cannot be
performed without the first'. Dogg's Hamlet is a
reworking of Dogg's Our Pet, an exercise in nonsense
language which leads on to The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
(published separately by Samuel French) which takes the most
well-known lines from Hamlet and condenses them into
13 minutes. Cahoots Macbeth ingeniously abbreviates
Shakespeare and combines it with linguistic jokes, political
comment and farce.
A
Doll's House.Play. Henrik
Ibsen, in a new version by Christopher Hampton Ibsen's classic play tells the story of
Nora, beautiful, fragile wife of Torvald Helmer. Nora had
secretly borrowed money for her husband by forging her
father's signature. Krogstad, her creditor, threatens to
ruin Helmer by exposing Nora's fraud. When Helmer finds out,
he is not prepared to sacrifice his reputation to protect
Nora; she realizes that she must close the door on her
marriage and her husband to retain her self-respect.
A
Doll's House : Henrik Ibsen,
Trans K. McLeish Ibsen's revolutionary tale of Nora's
awakening to her need for a life of her own. First performed
in 1879, and in this translation by the English Touring
Theatre in 1994. Dolphins
Rampant. Comedy.
Charlotte Hastings George Dolphin, a rich, well-bred man, is
so obsessed with making money that he fails to notice his
wife's devotion to him or his daughter's serious feelings
towards his young assistant. With the unexpected arrival
from the States of his mother, a cheerful, generous and
irrepressible humanist, his world is turned completely
upside down. Period 1960s
Don
Juan. Play. Bertolt
Brecht, adapted from Molière. Translated by Ralph
Manheim In this adaptation Don Juan, the
legendary lover, is regarded as a means to ridicule the
hypocrisy and pretentiousness of the world as he pursues his
amorous ways, dodges and outwits his enemies until, in the
form of the Statue of the Commander, he meets his inevitable
nemesis and is cast into hell tire. This is one of Brecht's
less radical adaptations and one of those with which he
apparently had least to do.
Don
Juan : Molière. Trans
K. McLeish Set in Sicily, Molière's version
retells the famous myth of Don Juan (or Don Giovanni), the
womaniser with no morals and a scorn for religion. It charts
his relationship with his servant, Sganarelle, his romantic
philandering, his false conversion and his ultimate
punishment. Original first performed in 1665. Doña
Rosita the Spinster, or the Language of
Flowers. Play.
Federico Garcia Lorca. Translated by Gwynne Edwards A realistic social drama set in Granada
between 1855 and 1911. The central character, Rosita, is an
attractive and hopeful 20-year-old, in love with her cousin.
Act II is set in 1900 and portrays the movement of Progress
beyond Rosita's home whilst she waits for her cousin. The
plays ends dramatically with an anguished portrayal of
Rosita as an ageing spinster. Lorca's treatment of Rosita is
one of sympathy and understanding as he records her bitter
humiliation.
Donkey's
Years. Play. Michael
Frayn The occasion is a reunion dinner at a
lesser college of an older university. Gathered together are
a number of graduates now in their early forties and mostly
in responsible, influential positions. All starts smoothly,
with the usual conventional greetings, but as the night goes
on the college port causes behaviour surprising in those
positions of political, academic or spiritual authority. The
play was seen at the Globe Theatre, London, with Peter
Barkworth, Jeffrey Wickham and Penelope Keith. Don't
Dress for Dinner.
Farce. Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon Bernard is hoping to weekend in the
country with his chic Parisian mistress Suzy. He has
arranged for a cordon bleu cook, is in the process of
packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother, and has
invited along his best friend Robert as a suitable alibi.
It's foolproof. What could possibly go wrong? Well ...
Hilarious confusion piles upon hilarious confusion as
Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed! Don't
Drink the Water.
Comedy. Woody Allen This hilarious affair takes place in an
American Embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American
tourist, caterer by trade, and his family, rush into the
embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of
spying and picture-taking. But it is not much of a refuge as
the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has
been expelled from a dozen different countries. Nevertheless
they carefully and frantically plot their escape and the
ambassador's son and the caterer's daughter even have time
to fall in love. Don't
Just Lie There, Say
Something. Farce.
Michael Pertwee Sir William is leading a campaign against
permissiveness. In order to counter this a group of hippies
abduct Barry Ovis, a young Parliamentarian and take him,
drugged, to a wild party. He escapes and takes refuge in Sir
William's flat. He finds the great man is far from
unpermissive himself. The pleasant evening of dalliance Sir
William has arranged is upset by a series of complications.
The mounting frenzy culminates in a whirlwind of frenetic,
panic-stricken plans and counter-plans. Don't
Lose the Place!
Comedy. Derek Benfield When Sylvia's boyfriend Robin walks out
on her she decides on a rather unconventional method of
finding a replacement. Determined not to be let down a
second time, she has carefully arranged a timetable in order
to 'try out' various assorted lovers and assess their
suitability before making her final choice of a potential
husband. But timetables have a way of going wrong... A
torrent of confusions and mistaken identities inevitably
arise as Sylvia and her friend Jemma try, with unexpected
and hilarious results, to prevent the final confrontation of
the three trial husbands. A delightfully comic climax
ensues. Don't
Misunderstand Me.
Comedy. Patrick Cargill A light and frothy comedy relating the
complications and misunderstandings that arise when Charles
and Margery prepare to entertain Charles's brother Robert
and his new wife, Jane, whom they have never met. Robert
arrives, without Jane, and reveals that he had a brief
affaire in America with Jaynie, but has covered his
tracks by not giving her his English address. Minutes later
Jaynie arrives! Confusions arise from wild deceptions as
Charles and Robert struggle to keep Margery Jaynie and a
further young lady from revealing their true identities
... Dora:
A Case Of Hysteria : Kim
Morrissey. A satirical feminist play debunking the
theories of Sigmund Freud. In the famous case, Dora is sent
to Dr Freud by her father, who feels she is suffering from
neurosis. Despite her claims that her father's friend has
been sexually harassing her, Freud believed her to be
exhibiting symptoms of hysteria caused by repressed sexual
desire rather than by any abuse. Double
Double. Play. Eric Elice and
Roger Rees Phillipa has picked up down-and-out
Duncan. It is, she explains, purely a business arrangement
based on Duncan's uncanny resemblance to her recently
deceased husband, Richard, who stood to inherit a
million-pound trust fund in a few weeks. All Duncan has to
do for a half-share in the fund is impersonate Richard at a
party. This clever thriller twists and turns until the
stunning climax that leaves the audience gasping. 'A glossy
romantic thriller - it should be seen to be believed.'
Sunday Times
M I (middle-age) F4 (teenage, 20, 30, middle-age). A studio
flat.
ISBN 0 573 11513 3
9-29m 2f plus 7-9m/f, doubling. Classic drama. Simple
set.
ISBN 1854593358
8m 5f, chorus. Historical drama. Simple set.
ISBN 185459074X
Up to 20 characters, much doubling possible.
M3 (late 30s, 40s) F4 (30s, 35, old), 1 boy 1 girl
(optional). A flat.
3-4m 3-4f, 3 children. Classic drama. Single interior
set.
ISBN 185459236X
M5 (25, 40s) F4 (young, 40s, 60s). A living-room.
M 15 F6.
10m 4f. Classic comedy/drama. Multipurpose set.
ISBN 1854593560
M7 F12, a voice. Two rooms.
M8 F1. A college courtyard. Two studies.
ISBN 0 573 11097 2
M3 (35, any age) F3 (30s). A living-room.
ISBN 0 573 01748 4
M 12 F4. An embassy.
ISBN 0 573 60817 2
M5 (30-old) F4 (20s). A town hall stage, a London
flat.
ISBN 0 573 01040 4
M3 (young, late 30s, early 50s) F2 (young, 35). Composite
setting: a sitting-room, patio and part of a kitchen.
ISBN 0 573 01749 2
M2 (40s) F3 (20, 40). A living-room.
ISBN 0 573 11150 2
2m, 1f. Comedy/drama. Simple set.
ISBN 1854592955
M 1 (40) F1 (30). A London apartment.
ISBN 0 573 01646 1