Farce. Thornton Wilder An rich old merchant in Yonkers decides to take a wife and employs a matchmaker. She subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young, lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious climax of complication. Ater everyone gets straightened out romantically, and everyone has his heart's desire, the merchant of Yonkers finds himself affianced to the astute matchmaker herself. Period 1880s. 'Loud, slapdash and uproarious ... Something extraordinarily original and funny.' New York Times. Debbie Isitt : Comedy 2M 3F Interior set This is fable for adults about Matilda, a compulsive liar who tells
so many lies that even she cannot keep up. Matilda lives a reclusive
life at home with her family - a despairing mother, suicidal brother
and deluded father - and only her correspondence with an agony aunt
for outside company. Life for Matilda's family is hard enough without
the embarrassment of her lies, but Matilda lies to protect them.
Matilda lies because she loves them, and anyway, Matilda just can't
stop. Just when she thinks life at home can't get any worse, one
morning she experiences a sudden change and finds herself compelled
to tell the truth at all times and to everyone! Secrets are exposed,
myths explode ... havoc! Chaos! If the lies were bad then the truth
is worse - Matilda must be stopped!! Comedy Eleanor Harris Howard and Helen McAvity. 7 men, 5 women. Interior Writing an etiquette column for a chain of small town newspapers
does not shape up for Kelly Lewis, as a particularly promising or
lucrative career. But Kelly has prospects because of her romance
with Bruce Barrett, a successful publisher and television personality
who is several years her senior. The snag, however, is that Bruce's
estranged wife is a lady U.S. Senator - and she is reluctant to risk
the scandal of a divorce in an election year. But as Bruce and Kelly
are unwilling to stop seeing each other, the Senator's lawyer suggests
that they employ a "beard," or decoy, to accompany them in public.
The idea is that people will think that Kelly and the "beard" are
the real twosome, and the lawyer assigns one of his junior colleagues
to the job. But the young man, an amateur ornithologist, is more
interested in birds than ballots and, to add to the complications,
his sympathies are soon aligned with the lovers. Kelly's neighbour,
a young Swedish beauty who travels between their adjacent apartments
via an ironing board balanced over an air shaft, also contributes
to the mayhem, as do a unique assortment of zany neighbours and friends.
It all ends up in a lively party, with the "beard" dancing about
madly as a whooping crane, and the Senator's opposition sneaking
in to take some compromising pictures - with the result being that
Kelly must be sacrificed if the election is to be saved. When the
chips are down she realises that Bruce is not the man she thought
he was, but Kelly's disenchantment is happily reversed when she and
the lawyer find that they were meant for each other all along. Robin Hawdon : Farce 2M 3F Interior set The hugely successful and attractive chat show host Draycott Harris
has a problem ... he has no luck with women. Draycott enlists the
help of his long- lost, worldlywise brother to assist him in the
pursuit of his new, sexy PR girl, Honey Tooks. What neither brother
anticipates however is that Draycott's long-suffering secretary Julia
has been nurturing a growing passion for her boss, which is set to
explode. Misdirected desires, mistaken bodies and disregarded articles
of clothing all feature heavily in this frantically paced and energetic
West End farce. Play. James McLure. 2 men, 1 woman. Unit Set Now rich, famous, and perhaps a bit out of date, Max Love is in
Florida about to star in a production of Waiting for Godot. An ex-vaudevillian,
Max is not much for such "highclass"
pursuits as the theatre, and he is having a bit of trouble with his
lines. A young production assistant (who is awed in the presence
of a "living legend") helps him with his cues and, at the same time,
begins to pepper him with questions about his fabled career as a
comic. Cutting swiftly back and forth between past and present, the
play then evolves into a series of varied and revealing scenes: Max's
hardscrabble early days on the vaudeville circuit; teaming up with
Maxie, a young hoofer of Hispanic background; their success as a
team and their eventual marriage; and, in the end, Maxie's disillusionment
and descent into schizophrenia. Ultimately Max's story becomes one
of unbridled ambition and a ceaseless striving for perfection and
success at any cost, and the price which this exacts both from him
and from those close to him. For, in the final essence, Max finds
that while he may have made it to the top, he has arrived there alone,
embittered and, in the most personal sense, unloved and unfulfilled. |