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Ghetto.
Play. Joshua Sobol, in a
version by David Lan, with lyrics translated and music
arranged by Jeremy Sams Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination. Premiered in Britain in 1989 at the Royal National Theatre. The
Ghost Train.
Drama. Arnold Ridley Arnold Ridley's classic drama was first
produced in 1925 and filmed no less than three times. A very
silly young man accidentally strands six passengers at a
small Cornish wayside station. Despite the psychic
stationmaster's weird stories of a ghost train, they decide
to stay the night in the waiting room. Soon they regret this
decision as ghostly and not so ghostly apparitions
materialise before the young man reveals the true reason
behind the night's events. Gigi.
Comedy. Colette and Anita
Loos In Paris in 1900, amidst a froth of
fin de siècle gaiety, Gigi celebrates her
sixteenth birthday. She is now ready to carry on the family
tradition of stylish courtesan and, accordingly, her
great-aunt, her mother and her grandmother train the
tomboyish Gigi. Unfortunately, the first rich 'protector'
they choose is Tonton and what should be a decently
unrespectable business arrangement goes wrong when the two
parties fall in love. The
Gin Game.
A tragicomedy. D. L. Coburn In a seedy nursing home, the destitute
Weller sits playing a lonely, unsuccessful game of
solitaire. Prim, self-righteous Fonsia Dorsey joins him and
they begin to play gin rummy while revealing intimate
details of their lives. Fonsia wins every time and finally
Weller leaves, a broken man, while she realises her rigidity
in life has left her an embittered, lonely old age. '
... a vibrant study on loneliness,
disillusion, old age and death yet fiercely funny.'
Boston Globe The
Gingerbread Lady.
Play. Neil Simon Evy, a popular singer and an alcoholic,
completes a ten-week drying-out period. Her friend, her
daughter and an actor try to help her adjust to sobriety.
But all have the opposite effect: the birthday party washes
out, the gingerbread lady falls off the wagon and careers
onward to her own tragic end. 'His characteristic wit and
humour are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of
lost misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching.'
New York Post The
Gioconda Smile.
Play. Aldous Huxley Emily Hutton has been a complaining
chronic invalid and her husband, Henry, a rich and still
comparatively young man, has found consolation elsewhere.
For years, he has shared his intellectual and artistic
interests with Janet Spence, valuing her Gioconda-like
inscrutability, but Janet's surface calm hides an intense
passion for Henry and she poisons Emily. When, after several
months' separation, she finds Henry has married someone else
she determines to wreak havoc on their lives. Give
Me Your Answer, Do!
Play. Brian Friel David Knight is staying in Donegal with novelist Tom Connolly and his wife, Daisy. He has been assessing Tom's papers, which he may purchase. Also visiting are novelist Garret Fitzmaurice and his wife whose marriage may break up, and Daisy's father and arthritic mother who may be soon in a wheelchair. Absent but casting a dark shadow is the Connolly daughter, institutionalised since she was a child. Everybody is waiting for an answer which may - or may not - come. The
Glass Menagerie. Play.
Tennessee Williams In a St Louis slum apartment lives Amanda Wingfeld who clings frantically to another time and place when she was a southern belle with a myriad of 'gentlemen callers'. With her lives her son Tom and crippled daughter Laura. Tom spends every spare moment losing himself at the movies while Laura's separation from reality increases until she is like one of her glass collection, too fragile to move from the shelf. Period 1945 Glengarry
Glen Ross. Play. David
Mamet The scene is a real estate office in America - a fly-by-night operation selling tracts of underdeveloped land in Arizona to gullible Chicagoans. A sales contest is near its end; the winner will get a Cadillac, the second a set of knives, the bottom two get fired. This is the background to Mamet's seedy morality play filled with the spiralling obscenity and comic bluster of the salesmen. 'The dialogue becomes mesmerising ... rich seam of humour and pathos ... ' New Statesman
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