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Evan Smith Somewhere in the 19th Century, Amelia Pickles, a prim and proper
spinster of modest means, agrees to let out a room in her Victorian
London establishment to a retired military man, Josiah Wickeltt.
The arrangement seems to be working out until Mr. Wickett decides
to play matchmaker with Miss Pickles' prissy niece Alexandrina, and
his nephew, Darlington, an officer in the cavalry. Through a gross
misinterpretation, Miss Pickles believes she, not Alexandrina, is
the object of Mr. Wickett's, not Darlington's, affection. Miss Pickles
is convinced Mr. Wickett will soon ask for her hand in marriage.
When he denies, she decides to take her boarder to a court of law
for breach of promise. Mr. Wickett loses the trial. Or does he win?
He doesn't wish to pay Miss Pickles her settlement and instead he
opts to marry the lonely woman. Through the musings, regrets, anecdotes,
and comedic bickerings between their forced duet it seems as though
just maybe they were meant to be together after all. Play. Agatha Christie Michael Starkwedder stumbles in to Richard Warwick's study to find
him dead and his wife Laura standing nearby with a gun. The police
are puzzled by a set of fingerprints. Do they belong to MacGregor,
the man whose child Warwick killed or are belonging to Julian Farrar,
Laura's lover whom Laura has lied to protect? After Warwick's half-brother
confesses to the murder and then kills himself the case is closed
but then Miss Christie produces one of her surprise endings. Drama. Sybille Pearson, Over 48 hours in an Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan, four
people attempt to bridge the gaps in their lives, heal old wounds
and connect across seemingly unbridgeable cultural, conjugal and
generational gulfs. The play revolves around Walter, a formidable,
deeply principled German-Jewish doctor who fled Germany as Hitler
came to power and who now clings to his past; Walter's son Yves,
a middle-aged working actor, desperately trying to gain his father's
acceptance and love; Yves's son Daniel, swimming in confusion yet
wholly devoted to his grandfather; and finally, Gaby, Yves's ex-wife
and Daniel's mother, an outsider to the adversity between the fathers
and sons, the bitterness of which threatens to consume her. Each
member of the family circles one another trying to come to terms,
yet they seem to move farther apart. The play culminates with Walter's
death, which seems may finally tear Yves, Gaby and Daniel completely
apart; yet, at first helpless without him, the fractured family stays
together. Thriller. Tim Kelly, from the novel by Dorothy Macardle. Seeking to escape the demands of life in London, Pam Fitzgerald
and her brother. Roddy, an aspiring playwright, discover a charming
house in the west of England, overlooking the Irish Sea. The house,
Cliff End, has long been empty and they are able to purchase it at
a suspiciously low price from crusty Commander Brooke, the village
curmudgeon. The reason is soon apparent - the house has an unsavoury
reputation. Fifteen years earlier a murder may or may not have taken
place by the gnarled tree that can be viewed from the parlour window.
Slowly the Fitzgeralds begin to sense the evil spirit that still
inhabits the house, announcing its presence with sudden, bone-chilling
cold. Their housekeeper's cat will not enter the nursery, where the
sound of a weeping woman adds to the tense atmosphere and the scent
of a flowery, exotic perfume called mimosa comes and goes. The village
doctor, the local gossip, and a former governess visit with strange
stories of the beautiful Mary Meredith, who once lived in the house,
and of the striking, unstable Carmel, who posed for a painting that
led to her destruction. With the help of Mary's daughter, Stella,
a beautiful young girl whose mysterious birth holds the key to the
puzzle, and a seance arranged by an actress friend of the Fitzgeralds,
Cliff End is forced, at last, to reveal its dark secrets. The action
then builds steadily to a truly terrifying climax, in which the ghost
is discovered to be not only real, but dangerous. Comedy. David Tristram Bill and Jenny are divorcing. She tries to catch him in a compromising position while he attempts to seduce the young, innocent Eve who has come to view Bill and Jenny's country cottage. Eve arrives with her fiancé and Jenny proposes to Bill a 'first to the bedpost' competition to establish the divorce settlement. Jenny wins and Bill is humbled into reassessing his profligacy. This riotous comedy is by the author of the famous Inspector Drake farces. (in Hungarian Plays) - Andor Szilagyi. Trans I. Patthy A man and a woman - Angelus and Angelina - meet at a railway station,
fall in love and part, thinking they'll never meet again. But as
the play shows, they meet again and again, though always in a different
time. Funny, enigmatic and poignant, Unsent Letters plays
with the idea of the many missed opportunities in life. Premiered
1993. Play. Royce Ryton One evening Tom and Annabel have a row which leaves Annabel dead.
A hectic evening ensues when no woman can enter the cottage without
rapidly becoming deceased. Annabel's mother-in-law and Tom's landlady
follow, and disposal of bodies becomes an acute problem. The arrival
of a grim police inspector complicates matters, until a further corpse
involves him too. The hysterical ending finds the stage littered
with female corpses, frantic males, and a potential fifth victim
banging on the door. Comedy. Derek Benfield Veteran TV talk-show host Patrick Sumner is desperate to impress
his new producer Reg Godfrey, who visits Patrick's smart London flat
for drinks. But Patrick reckons without the intervention of Jenny,
a pretty girl who arrives on the same evening as Reg, intent upon
infiltrating Patrick's private life and even passing herself off
as his wife. When Patrick's real wife returns unexpectedly
from a Paris trip, Patrick is forced into a spiralling series of
lies and subterfuge. Comedy. John Godber Dedicated to the Rugby League fans of Hull and created for the Hull
Truck Theatre Company this comedy was premiered at the Edinburgh
Festival in 1984 where it won a Fringe First award and subsequently
the 1984 Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year after a successful
run in London. Set 'somewhere in the north of England' it centres
on the amateur rugby team from the Wheatsheaf Arms who can
only muster a side of four whose pride lies in their unbroken record
of defeat. Comedy. John Godber 'In Amateur Rugby League, everything is personal.' The truth of
this sentiment is proved time and again in Up 'n' Under II, the
hilarious sequel to John Godber's hit comedy about the mixed bag
of players making up the Wheatsheaf Arms team. Will the lost
honour of the Wheatsheaf Arms be retrieved in their match
against the Cobblers Arms? Audiences will be on the edges
of their seats before they find out! Farce. Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot To sell an avant-garde house to the Coopers, his first prospective
buyers in years, Lockwood persuades Nigel to pose as the owner and
hires an actress to play his wife. But the real complications start
when the Coopers are fog bound and have to stay the night-and turn
out not to be husband and wife at all! Comedy. John Scholes Adele comes to the lighthouse to prevent its sabotage by the keeper,
Alfred, who works for U.R.G.E. (Universal Reunification of the German
Empire). Alfred has been murdered by wife, Mildred. Mildred's daughter
and granddaughter - Daphne and Monica - arrive with Pierre who is
also an agent of U.R.G.E. and wants to liaise with Alfred. What follows
is a rollicking, fast-moving comedy with light-hearted innuendo that
leads to mad confusion as everyone succumbs to some sort of urge.
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