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Play: Tennessee Williams. Subsequently revised and available under the title The Two Character Play. Peter Gordon : Comedy 4M 5F Interior set Helen has arrived at the Church Hall with her troupe of terrorising
Brownies in tow. Kath and Bob arrive ready for their planned badminton
game amidst their own marital quarrels about Bob's secretary Linda,
who also arrives ready to play, with ladies' man Wayne not far behind.
David and Sue show up for the big game even though Leonard insists
he has booked the hall for an illustrated talk on steam locomotives
and Evonne is certain she has arranged for the rehearsal of her very
first pantomime. Confusion reigns until everyone finally unites for
a common cause, the production of the pantomime. Over the coming
weeks alliances are formed and switched as they all battle against
the odds and the opening night nears. Bob and Kath's marital troubles
continue, with Linda in the middle. Helen, in between staging walk-outs,
is in pursuit of David, although he only has eyes for Sue. Wayne
is out to impress anyone who will listen, while Leonard rapidly bores
everybody into submission. Events finally culminate during Leonard's
talk at the final night party, when Evonne finds her confidence,
Helen her come-uppance and everyone else receives their just deserts. Play: Mark St. Germain : 1 man, 1 woman. Exterior A provocative and theatrically exciting examination of the prospects facing today's youth, in a world where traditional values have declined and humanity seems bent on self-destruction. It is the night of their high school graduation and Myst and Grouper,
two bright, well-to-do teenagers, have driven to the local lovers
leap for a private celebration. Myst is 17, and the daughter of a
fading rock star of dubious morals; Grouper is 18, and the son of
an ambitious, self-important U.S. Senator. Myst is determined to
deprive Grouper of his virginity, but he wants to wait until they
are married and settled into domesticity. As they drink beer, smoke
pot and engage in sharply amusing, yet disheartening, interplay,
it becomes increasingly evident that they are very lost young souls
whose ideals have been sadly eroded by the shoddy, self centered
example of their elders. In the end they do make love, but it proves
to be only a brief respite before their pasts encroach on the present
and, inevitably, over-whelm it with terrible and heart-rending results. Comedy. Ray Cooney When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend
the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the Opposition's typists,
things go disastrously wrong, and he sends for his PPS, George Pigden
who, through Richard's lies, sinks further and further into trouble
and ends up going through an identity crisis! A hugely successful
sequel to Ray Cooney's Two Into One, Out of Order received
the 1990 Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year. Out of Sight ... Out of Murder Mystery comedy. Fred Carmichael Peter has come to a lonely old house to finish a play - a thriller
featuring all the old stock characters such as butler and maid, but
with new twists. Amazingly the characters manifest themselves and
take over the situation, one of them trying to kill Peter. Events
follow a typical thriller to a hair-raising climax until Peter manages
to type 'The End' - but an even more surprising twist is in store. Play. Richard Harris Roger has enough trouble assembling his cricket team to play against
the British Railways Maintenance Division Reading East, but these
complications pall before those occurring among their various wives
and girlfriends. As a final catastrophe, rain starts to fall. The
play, from the author of Stepping Out, was first seen at
the Queen's Theatre, London, starring Julia McKenzie and Maureen
Lipman. Play. Sutton Vane A collection of people embark for the fateful journey across the
Styx to meet the Examiner who has surprises in store for the passengers. |