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Play
it Again, Sam.
Comedy. Woody Allen Allan has this thing about Humphrey
Bogart. His wife has left him and his friends have been
trying to fix him up with beautiful dates, but he is so
gauche they always end abysmally. His daydreams of Bogart
and the beautiful people are always rudely shattered by real
life. And when he falls for his best friend's wife things
really seem black. But the homely hero is saved and is left
to dream of being greater things. Play
On! Comedy. Rick Abbot A theatre group try desperately to put on
a play, amid all kinds of maddening interference from its
authoress, Phyllis, who keeps revising the script until
almost opening night and during the actual performance
anything that can go wrong does. At the curtain call Phyllis
decides to give a speech on the state of the modern theatre
and what befalls her is the madcap climax to this hilarious
romp. The
Playboy Of the Western
World J.M. Synge A stranger, Christy, arrives in a village
bar in the West of Ireland claiming to have killed his
father. The locals are impressed - some can even directly
relate to the deed - and Christy is lauded as a folk hero.
He can't believe his luck, and confidently pursues the
affections of the barmaid Pegeen, until the arrival of his
not-so-dead father takes the wind out of Christy's sails ...
First performed in 1907. Playhouse
Creatures. Play.
April De Angelis Of vital importance to the development of
English drama was the entrance of the first actresses upon
the English stage. April De Angelis has taken five
actresses- Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall,
Doll Common and Mary Betterton - and given us a fascinating
look at the precarious lot of actresses in the Restoration
period. A moving and often comic account of a true story,
with some earthy language! Period 1669 Playing
Sinatra. Play.
Bernard Kops A powerful psychological drama set in an
oppressive old house in London, where grown-up siblings
Norman and Sandra resist their lonely future by living out
their fantasies in the music of their idol, Frank Sinatra.
Norman, an agoraphobic bookbinder, works at home and heats
microwave meals to perfection; Sandra, with outside job and
interests, longs to break free of her existence. But the
option of leaving her mentally-disturbed brother and running
off with the "mystic" Phillip proves less than
straightforward ... This tense play's clammy grip never
slackens. Playing
the Wife. Play.
Ronald Hayman August Strindberg directs two actors in
an autobiographical play detailing his difficult, stormy
relationship with his first wife Sid von Essen. Sid is
played by Harriet Bosse, with whom Strindberg falls in love
and marries; Strindberg himself is played by Bengt Anders,
an earnest, ardent young actor who is also in love with
Harriet. This impressive drama about a sensitive, driven,
turbulent and mystical playwright uses a fictional
play-within-a-play device to brilliantly approximate the
environment in which Strindberg lived and worked. Plaza
Suite. Comedy. Neil
Simon The comedy consists of three separate
plays all occurring in the same hotel suite, and all parts
can be played by separate artists. In the first play,
Visitor from Mamaroneck, a middle-aged couple
revisit the hotel room of their honeymoon - but the
arrangement does not end as romantically as might have been
expected. Visitor from Hollywood recounts the
meeting of two old flames and what can happen under the
influence of repeating magic Hollywood names. The last play,
Visitor from Forest Hills, tells of a mother and
father and their daughter who has locked herself in the
bathroom and refuses to come out for her wedding. The
Plough and the Stars.
Tragedy. Sean O' Casey To the Irish Citizen Army 'The Plough and
the Stars' symbolises their futile patriotism. To all the
slum dwellers the Easter rebellion brings the realisation
that there is no help against the strength of the English
forces. This tragic satire ends amid a scene of final
desolation where two Irishmen sit playing cards until they
are rounded up by the King's soldiers. Period 1915-16
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