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Shades.
Play. Sharman Macdonald In 1950s Glasgow, Pearl, a widow, is getting ready to go to a dinner dance with a gentleman friend she hopes will propose to her. Her ten-year-old son, Alan, helps her to prepare. At the end of the dinner dance, her partner, Callum, declares his love but Pearl cannot stop the past intruding as she reminisces about her dead husband. Returning home, Pearl's incipient loneliness is further underlined by Alan who is beginning to grow up and grow away. Shadowlands.
Play. William Nicholson Nicholson's stage adaptation of his
award-winning TV play relates the story of shy Oxford don
and children's author C. S. Lewis and poet Joy Davidman in
academic Oxford in the 1950s. Their relationship starts as
an exchange of literary correspondence. When Joy arrives in
Oxford her intellectual assertiveness delights Lewis but
appals his condescending fellow academics, who are further
shocked when Lewis goes through a marriage of convenience
with her for immigration purposes. The
Shakespeare Revue -
Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee An enchanting collection of witty music
and skits about the Bard. Devised for and first performed at
the RSC, this show has been a hit with audiences all over
the world, and includes songs and sketches by Noel Coward,
Stephen Sondheim, Fry & Laurie, Victoria Wood and many
more. 'Absolute bliss' Barry Took, The Times. She
Stoops to Conquer.
Comedy. Oliver Goldsmith Mr Hardcastle and Sir Charles Marlow have
arranged a match between Miss Kate Hardcastle and young
Marlow. The fun arises when Marlow is directed to the
Hardcastles' house rather than a neighbouring inn, and
mistakes Hardcastle for the landlord and Kate for one of the
servants. Period 1700s. She
Was Only an Admiral's
Daughter ... Comedy.
Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman When Polly borrows her brother's friend's
flat to meet prospective bridegrooms from a marriage bureau,
she has little idea what she is letting herself in for. With
a mixture of mistaken and assumed identities the result is a
morning of chaos -but also a bridegroom for Polly. Not the
least important character is the laundry chute which
swallows both clothing and human beings with noisy and
indiscriminate satisfaction. Shining
Souls - Chris
Hannan Glasgow. Today. It's Ann's wedding - but
she's in two minds because there are two men in her life,
both called Billy. Meanwhile her daughter Mandy wants to
save souls and makes a start with Charlie - who's on the
dole and on the make. Soon there are nine characters in
search of their souls, sex and a new wardrobe ... Shirley
Valentine. Play.
Willy Russell Underneath Mrs Joe Bradshaw - 42-year-old
mother of two grown-up children - there is the former
Shirley Valentine longing to get out. Her feminist friend
offers her a free holiday in Greece and she seizes the
opportunity. Shirley, breaking out of the mould cast for her
by society, is brilliantly shown with humour, warm sympathy
and human insight. 'In this play [Mr Russell]
touches English audiences directly in a way that no other
playwright has done since the early John Osborne ...
brilliantly funny...' The Times. Shock!
Thriller. Brian Clemens Maggie lives in a converted windmill, to
which her lover, Terry, and Maggie's friend Ann are coming
to celebrate her birthday. Maggie has some peculiar tastes,
including tape-recording the most private intimacies between
herself and her lovers. This indulgence soon causes
consternation among the visitors, culminating in the death
of Ann's fiancé A second horror is the discovery that
Maggie has been murdered. A final twist proves the relevance
of the play's title. Shock
Tactics. Farce. John Dole Fred is a home-built computer given to uttering loud and embarrassing remarks at inopportune moments. He all but ruins the courtship of his owner's daughter, but does have his uses: he is able to forecast the weather with complete accuracy. News of this reaches the Met. Office, who send a spy posing as a believer in the occult to infiltrate the Shaw household, while Uncle Ben finds out if Fred can predict the winner of the 3.30. The
Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife.
Play. Federico Garcia Lorcá. Translated by Gwynne
Edwards In this play subtitled 'A Violent Farce in Two Acts', a young wife is not satisfied with her elderly husband and spends her time talking to young men through the window. The shoemaker leaves her, abandoning her to face the insults of the neighbours. In the second act he returns, disguised, and listens as she vows loyalty to her absent husband. He then reveals his identity only to find that she blames him for her problems, as her former suitors stab each other outside. Shut
Your Eyes and Think of
England. Comedy. John
Chapman and Anthony Marriott This hilarious, smash-hit West End comedy
starred Frank Thornton and Donald Sinden. When Mr Pullen
comes into the office on Saturday to finish the books for
the audit he is astonished to find his employer, Sir Justin
Holbrook, in the penthouse flat with a call-girl. As the day
progresses and new arrivals include Lady Holbrook, Mrs
Pullen and a very influential Arab sheikh events lead to an
impenetrable maze of confused identities.
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