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Play.
Michael Bogdanov This adaptation of Longfellow's poem into a fast-moving spectacle
of dance and rhyme had a very successful run at the National Theatre.
All actors are called upon to perform the fast, athletic dancing,
mime and percussion that makes this play an exciting and vivid visual
experience. Play. Simon Gray Harry and Louise, a London couple, decide they have found the perfect
weekend retreat in a Devon cottage: they can escape London's trials
and traumas, their two children can grow up with nature and without
television, and Harry's widowed father can relax. But the wiles of
the outside world obtrude into this rural idyll and the cottage is
soon for sale, leaving a trail of failure and disillusionment in
its wake. Drama. Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz. From the novel by Storm Jameson. The play all takes place during twenty-four hours in a quiet French
house on the Loire when an Englishman returns to visit the family
that sheltered him during the desperate days of the war. His return
coincides with the return from prison of the eldest member of the
family who was locked away five years for continuing, during wartime,
an old friendship with a German general, as intellectual if not as
completely immured in the peaceful pre-war world as he. Behind everybody
and every action stands the figure of a resistance leader, Robert,
who was captured at Orleans in 1944 and tortured to death by the
invaders. He peers out of the grief-pained eyes of his mother, the
guilt-clouded vision of the senior brother of the house and the Englishman
who counts him a friend. All of these people are driven by: an anguished
need to identify his betrayer. Thriller. Lezley Havard. 4 men, 4 women, 1 girl. Interior. After 18 years of marriage Richard and Jennifer Crawford are finally
about to become parents, and have moved from the city to an old farmhouse,
which they are trying to restore before the baby arrives. He still
commutes each day, while she stays in the country supervising the
shambling handyman and cook who work for them. At first it is mostly
the slow pace of restoration which nags them, but a general sense
of unease begins to build as the old house seems to be resisting
their intrusion. The lights fail, the plumbing malfunctions, a fey
neighbour stops by with an odd gift (a prayer book for the burial
of the dead), and her poet husband ominously warns Jennifer that
she should go back to the city before it is too late. Further complications
arise when they are joined by Richard's ne'er-do-well brother and
his fiancée, but it is the silent little girl whom Jennifer
claims she has seen swinging in the backyard who brings on the chilling
climax of the play - in which the real and the supernatural clash
with disturbing and breath-stopping results. The Hide and Seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimple Childrens' Play with music. Frank Gagliano. 4 men, 1 girl, plus many non-speaking roles. Unit set . Madeline Gimple is an orphan who invents herself parents (Hansel
and Gretel Gimple) and concocts all manner of outlandish stories
about them to convince herself - and others - that they truly exist.
She is also set upon by the Balloon Man, a villainous creature who
is responsible for any number of nefarious schemes, including making
people buy things just to create litter. This, of course, complicates
the life of the Litterman who, with Steve, Chris and Alphonse (three
versions of the same character and played by the same actor) contrives
to save Madeline from the Balloon Man and give him his comeuppance.
Filled with fast-paced action, charming songs and dazzling magic
tricks, the play is a constant joy and a theatrical event unique
of its kind. Play. Jack Popplewell Herbert succeeds in achieving his ambition to be a millionaire by
thirty-nine but, unbeknown to him, through the help of his philandering
wife Susan, whose children Herbert never suspects as being other
than his own. In fact, when Susan sets out to see the President of
the United States on his behalf he declares in all innocence that
his next son will be christened Ronnie ... Period 1980s Comedy. Woodrow Wyatt Conservative MP Philip Grantly has a loving wife, loving mistress,
two teenage children and a good chance of a seat in the Cabinet.
One by one his wife discovers his affair, his daughter is suspended
from school for snorting cocaine and his socialist son is involved
in a public brawl. Finally a newspaper discovers his affair and threatens
to publish, resulting in a comedy which combines romance and wit
with fun and suspense. Drama:. Dore Schary. 9 men, 6 women. Interior (Unit Set). The hero is a physicist who has been working on a military project
and is brought up sharp with the pronouncement that he has acute
leukaemia and has only six months to live. The realisation affects
his relationship with his children and relatives, with the young
woman who has fallen in love with him after his wife's death, and
most importantly with his profession. Finally he decides to devote
his remaining days to work with his son, who is a geneticist, in
a world-wide effort to abolish further experiments in atomic weapons. Brian Phelan :Drama 5M 2F Flexible staging The last of a dying breed, Christie Cameron has spent a lifetime
touring the counties of Ireland as an actor-manager in the time-honoured
tradition. When Christie sets off on a short lecture tour of American
universities in the company of his wife Meg, he has no idea he about
to be offered the role of a lifetime as the figurehead of a mysterious
Christian movement.Christie soon finds his fame and fortune in America,
but overtime, as the movement gathers pace, the ministry's agenda
begins tolook decidedly sinister. Against the backdrop of religious
faith anddevotion tainted by media exploitation and financial gain,
Christie is forced to question the purpose of his own life and values,
and of those whose lives are inexorably linked to his own. Lancashire comedy. Harold Brighouse Henry Hobson, widower and boot-shop proprietor, teases his daughter
Maggie on her being past the marrying age. Maggie retaliates by marrying
Hobson's best boot-hand, Will Mossop, and turning this retiring youth
into a sturdy fellow whose new confidence makes him a real business
rival to Hobson. Bowing to the circumstances, Hobson has no choice
but to accept Will as partner in the new firm of 'Mossop and Hobson'.
Period 1880 |