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by Terence Frisby (Author)Gig Young starred on Broadway as a food and wine connoisseur who dabbles in female delectations. He is picked up at a party by a younger woman who is a match for any roue. The new romance bubbles along smoothly considering the contrast between sophisticated gourmet and the modish girl. He finds himself in love permanently but is rebuffed when a young musician/ linoleum layer reclaims her heart.-3 women, 4 men Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Public...

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by Terence Rattigan (Author)The Sleeping Prince: An Occasional Fairy Tale is a 1953 play by Terence Rattigan, conceived to coincide with the coronation of Elizabeth II in the same year. Set in London in 1911, it tells the story of Mary Morgan, a young actress, who meets and ultimately captivates Prince Charles of Carpathia, considered to be inspired by Carol II of Romania.5 women, 7 men Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2016

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by Agatha Christie (Author)Clarissa, wife of a diplomat, is adept at spinning tales of adventure but when a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband arrives with an important politician, she enlists the help of her guests. Hilarity ensues when they are interrupted by the arrival of wry detective, Inspector Lord.A conscious parody of the detective thriller, Christie delivers a unique blend of suspe...

Her Big Chance - A monologue from Talking Heads - Paperback

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by Alan Bennett (Author)Meet Lesley, an actress. She has just completed a video ('targeted chiefly on West Germany') in which she plays Travis, a career girl who enjoys life, spends a remarkable amount of time topless and shoots a man with a harpoon gun. She tells all, blind to the sinister undertones of her story as well as to her own self-delusions and gullibility. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2015

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by Alan Bennett (Author)Susan is a vicar's wife suffocated by the expectations forced on her by her position and her husband's over-zealous parishioners. She is also an alcoholic who travels into Leeds to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shopkeeper. In frustration, she embarks on an affair with the off-licence owner, Ramesh, discovering something about herself and God in the process. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 22, 2016

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by Noel Coward (Author)Comedy / 4m, 14f / Int. Coward's tribute to theatre is set in a retirement home for actresses, all former stars. Jealousies abound, especially between Lotta and another who was also married to her former husband. A tragedy brings them to their senses and a new solarium brings out everyone's good nature. Lotta chooses to stay with her old friends rather than go live with her son. "Should rejoice those of us who still have hearts." London News Chronicle. Number of Pages: ...

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by Steve Harper (Author)September 1918 on the Western Front. Tommy and Dave receive an unexpected visit from Lieutenant Hargreaves who announces that Tommy is to be awarded a medal for his courage in combat. Why then are Tommy and Dave so keen to see the back of him? And who is the strange Icelandic character that enters the scene brandishing a sausage? A well-written, funny, poignant play about friendship, humanity and survival.4 men Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Public...

Time and Time Again - A Comedy - Paperback

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)The suburban house of the Bakers' adjoins a recreation field, which is useful since football and cricket play a large part in the story. Peter, who works for Graham, brings his fiancee to the house and Graham, as usual, makes a bee-line for her. However, it is Mrs. Baker's brother, Leonard, to whom Joan strays. Leonard, poetic, a fumbler, who moons around holding conversations with the garden gnome, has always roused the bullying Graham's malice and scorn, who is hor...

Danny the Champion of the World - Paperback

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by Roald Dahl (Author)Nine-year-old Danny lives happily in a gypsy caravan with his father, but his world is turned upside down when he learns that his father poaches pheasants from the estate of the nasty, greedy Victor Hazell. One night his father doesn't return from a poaching run and Danny fears the worst. Danny sets off on a courageous journey to find his father and with a little help from the village soon finds himself masterminding the most incredible and exciting plot ever attempted a...

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)Adapted from the book by C.S. Lewis. Digory is concerned about his ill mother and about his Uncle Andrew, who seems very strange indeed. When Digory and his friend are tricked by Uncle Andrew into embarking on a series of magical adventures, they are brought into contact with the forces of both evil and good. Digory is set a task, which he completes successfully, and the safety of Narnia and the restored health of his mother are thereby ensured. Number of Pages: 50 Dime...

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by Jean Anouilh (Author)Now retired, the General tries to keep old age at bay by dallying with every available pretty woman. His wife Emily, a determined invalid, perpetually complains of her husband's peccadilloes. Seventeen years ago, as they danced to the Waltz of the Toreadors, the General and Ghislaine de Ste Euvert fell in love. Ghislaine has waited, chaste and faithful, for the day when the General will be free of Emily. Now she comes to claim her man, armed with letters that prove Emi...

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by David Of Cardiovascular Wood (Author)The See-Saw Tree, an ancient oak, stands on ground which is ear-marked for development into a children's playground by Mr. Jay, owner of the nearby supermarket. A public meeting is called in the village hall to discuss his proposals, which include cutting down the three-hundred-year-old oak tree. The audience votes in favour, but Mr. Bunn, an environmental activist protests and shows us the devastating effect such plans will have on the inhabitants of t...

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by John Mortimer (Author)Mortimer is best known for "Rumpole of the Bailey" stories and film script "Tea with Mussolini." Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2015

George's Marvellous Medicine - Paperback

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by Roald Dahl (Author)It's the half term holiday and George Kranky is looking forward to a break from school when a letter from Grandma arrives announcing that she is coming to visit -- that very day Soon she has taken over George's bedroom and is making his life miserable with spiteful comments and demands for cups of tea and doses of medicine. George tries to make Grandma better by mixing a new type of medicine for her. Shaving foam, shampoo, lipstick, chilli powder and even brown paint al...

Who Killed Santa Claus?: A Play - Paperback

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by Terence Feely (Author)Barbara Love is a famous TV star who, just before her Christmas party, is threatened by a chilling voice on her answering machine and then receives a macabre present boxed in a miniature coffin. Not so much a 'whodunnit' but more a 'who's going to do it', as along troop the staff of her television show for the Christmas buffet, each one of them with a motive to murder her. The tension mounts as this cunningly plotted thriller twists and turns towards the final spine-t...

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by Dennis Potter (Author)The key to a bold and original approach to the mission, arrest, trial and death of Jesus is the title; Son of Man. He is portrayed as a man agonized by the feeling of divinity within him, and with all a man's capacity for suffering and pain. "Father, let me be just a man," he cries; and, to his disciples. "He (Son of Man) cannot be other than a man, or else God has cheated-- and so my Father in Heaven will abandon me to myself." The play also strongly reflects the his...

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by Robert Bolt (Author)The play follows the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, from shortly before the former's return to Scotland, through her marriage to Darnley, Rizzio's death, the scandal over Bothwell, Mary's imprisonment, Catholic plots, until her execution, closing as Spain's Armada is in active preparation.Large cast Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2014

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by Agatha Christie (Author)A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makeslife miserable for e...

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by Ron Nicol (Author)Skilfully adapted from the famous original story by Hans Christian Andersen, Th e Snow Queen is the story of Gerda, a little girl who searches for her friend Kai when he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Snow Queen in her ice palace. Gerda's innocence charms all good people and animals she meets on the way. They help her to escape the Enchantress, lead her to the royal court, and on to Lapland, where, in a final confrontation with the Snow Queen's Ice Creatures, good con...

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by Phil Willmott (Author)Princess Caraboo tells the extraordinary true story of a beautiful young woman who tricked her way from vagrancy to wealth and power in Regency England by pretending to be a shipwrecked Princess. Maintaining the deception becomes imperative as the stakes get higher and higher, and what begins as a desperate ploy by a petty criminal to evade the law escalates into a national scandal threatening to ruin anyone whose compassion, lust or ambition has blinded them to the t...

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by Iris Murdoch (Author)JB Priestley's adaptation of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 23, 2015

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by Austin Rosser (Author)Apart from a surprising change of heart and bid for sympathy at the final momen's of this version of the classic story, Todd glories in his villainies throughout and gleefully slaughters right and left until the cast is almost eliminated. Commendably, the'story is treated seriously and 'guying' is discouraged.3 women, 8 men, 2 boys Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 15, 2017

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, "The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve". But there's a young left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution. Committee meetings become symbolic battlefields for conflicting views - the right wing faction being led by the Chairman's conservative wife. The event turns into a violent confrontation between the t...

The Sweeney Todd Shock 'n' Roll Show - Paperback

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by Peter Miller (Author)This take on the traditional Victorian melodrama is aimed at young performers and is a lot sillier than most other versions. Queen Victoria is just one addition to the usual list of characters. Mrs Lovett's automated pie-making machine, a riot in the madhouse at Peckham and a police chase involving most of the cast are among the many opportunities for slapstick and physical theatre. The well-known storyline is still in there somewhere but this is more 'Carry On' than S...

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by Peter Shaffer (Author)Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy's parents it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation. Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 2...

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by Jacqueline Wilson (Author), Grant Olding (Author)"Based on the novel 'The story of Tracy Beaker' by Jacqueline Wilson." Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2017

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by Keith Waterhouse (Author)Following the successful television series based on Barbara Euphan Todd's children's classic, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Denis King bring us a new, effervescent stage musical of the story of Worzel Gummidge. The naughty, petulant, greedy, yet always lovable scarecrow is here with all the familiar characters: Aunt Sally, Sergeant Beetroot and Sue and John. Brought to life by the Crowman, Worzel creates havoc and farce wherever he goes in his frenzied efforts ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Paperback

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by C. G. Bond (Author)Melodrama / Casting: 8m, 3f / Scenery: Simple ints./exts. In this version of the old melodrama, Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities: his wife was abducted and raped by the Judge and his daughter abandoned, while he himself was deported on a false charge. He returns to avenge his family, accompanied by a sea captain, Anthony, whose life he has saved. Anthony falls in love with a young girl, the Judge's ward, who turns out to be Todd's daughter. Todd, meanw...

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by Harold Pinter (Author)Teddy arrives home to pay his family a visit with his wife Ruth, who settles into the household as if into a well-known niche. Teddy's brothe's and his father all take it for granted that she is anyone's for the asking - and she is. It is then'suggested that they should set her up in trade, in a little flat in Soho. Calmly Ruth lists the conditions she requires before accepting, barely batting an eyelid as Teddy returns to America.Back JacketIn an old and slightly see...

Round and Round the Garden - A Play - Paperback

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)In this play, Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized week end culminate, not surprisingly, in disaster. Ruth, Norman's wife, is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving, finally, all three women. Matters are not helped by such events as the slow thinking Tom mistaking Ruth's intentions during a conversation they have together. Eventually the horrific week end draws to a close.3 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.5 ...

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by Ray Cooney (Author), Keith Strachan (Arranged by)A riotous timetravelling adventure, Twice In A Lifetime offers a number of challenging doubling opportunities as it switches between modern day London and 1920s ragtime Chicago. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2017

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by Leonard Melfi (Author) Collection of Six One Act Plays including: Birdbath, Ferryboat, Halloween, Lunchtime, The Shirt, Times Square. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 11, 2011