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When Did You Last See your Trousers - Paperback

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by Ray Galton (Author)This hilarious farce begins quietly enough with Howard and Penny asleep. A burglar climbs through the window and steals various items, including Howard's suit. Awakening, Howard announces his intention to get back to the wife But how can he in only vest and underpants? Before you can say "jockey shorts" he is being chased around the flat by his Danish au pair, the Home Secretary and a randy constable who doubles as a flasher. Add to this a punk with rainbow coloured hai...

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by Will Editor-In-Chief Evans (Author), Alan Ayckbourn (Adapted by)Alan Ayckbourn's version of the first of the famous Aldwych farces was produced by the National Theatre. It is the story of an unsuccessful inventor who inherits the life interest in a fortune which is to revert on his death to his cousin George Maitland. As Cousin George is thought to have died abroad, the inventor has the brilliant idea of "dying" so that he can resurrect himself as his cousin and avoid paying his enormous d...

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by Caryl Churchill (Author)Written for Joint Stock, this theatre company's workshop for the play was "sexual politics", thus giving Caryl Churchill the idea for her parallel between colonial and sexual oppression. Act I takes place in Victorian Africa, whilst Act II is set in modern London. Much interplay is made of gender and colour: for example, Clive, the white settler, has a black servant, Joshua, who is played by a white because he wants to be what the whites want him to be. Hilarious an...

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks - Paperback

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by Richard Alfieri (Author)Comedy / Characters: 1 male, 1 female / Set Requirements: 1 Interior In roles originated by Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce, this two-character comedy opens as a aging but still formidable woman hires an acerbic dance instructor to give her lessons in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Antagonism between a gay man and the widow of a Southern Baptist minister gives way to profound compatibility as they swing dance, tango, foxtrot and cha-cha while sharing more than dance...

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by Irene O' Garden (Author)p>Monologues Characters: 1-12female Unit set This evening of twelve emotionally charged monologues starred Judith Ivey Off Broadway, where its run was extended twice. From ad exec to Midwest mom to care-giver to construction worker, each character is on fire in her own way - with passion, fear, self-discovery, even shopping Exploring the breadth of women's issues with humor and wisdom, the monologues offer excellent roles for one or more mature actresses. Wom ...

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by Mark St Germain (Author)Tammy Wynette - the woman behind the legend and the incredible songs that made her the First Lady of country music - leaps off the stage and into your heart. Through her eyes, the audience relives her journey from the cotton fields of Itawamba, Mississippi, to international superstar. With comic flare and dramatic impact, Stand by Your Man recounts triumphs and tragedies and explores Tammy's relationships with the five husbands she stood by. Among the twenty-six son...

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by Jeffrey Archer (Author)In the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairman of the Bar Council, is conducting the most important defense of his career - his own. Accused of the willful murder of his terminally ill wife, Sir David finds himself locked in legal combat with his old rival, Sir Anthony Blair Booth QC, prosecuting counsel.3 women, 11 men Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2015

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by Eduardo Machado (Author)Drama Charcters: 2 male, 3 female Interior Set As Fidel Castro storms Habana, a wealthy Batistlano is forced to flee to America with her husband and unborn child. Adria begs her cook, a proud and loyal woman who values her mistress's friendship, to promise she will protect the mansion from the communist upheaval. Over the next forty years Gladys keeps this promise, despite tremendous emotional and physical loss. When Adria's daughter vacations in Cuba and comes to N...

Artist Descending a Staircase - A Play - Paperback

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by Tom Stoppard (Author)In 1972 an elderly avant garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of the three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she tragically went blind she fell in love with one of them after viewing his picture in a gallery.1 woman, 6 men Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2015

Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of A Christmas Carol - Paperback

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by David McGillivray (Author)Genre: Comedy with music Characters: 4 females and 1 male Scenery: Simple set In a festive mood, the ladies mount another assault on the classics with their stage version of A Christmas Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system and a real Farndale first rap their vocal cords and feet around...

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by Frederick Stroppel (Author)Julia Dowling has an unexpected visitor who intends to escort her off to the afterlife. Infusing comedy into the classic Death Takes a Holiday, The Christmas Spirit is set in contemporary Long Island. Julia persuades Death to give her one more day to enjoy Christmas and invites him to be her guest at a festive party. The next day the house fills with bickering relatives, friends, the local priest...and Death, masquerading as a human, singing carols and dr Number ...

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by Henrik Ibsen (Author)The Ibsen classic, in a version by Christopher Hampton, was seen at the Royal National Theatre in 1989 starring Juliet Stevenson as Hedda.-4 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2014

The Adding Machine: A Play in Seven Acts - Paperback

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by Elmer L. Rice (Author)Drama Characters: 14 male, 9 female 5 interior scenes and 2 exterior scenes This constantly interesting play shows in outline the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modern business. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2011

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by Tad Mosel (Author)Drama Characters: 6 male, 7 female, 1 male child, extrasInterior and Exterior SetBased on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family by James Agee and winner of the Pulitzer Prize as Best Play of the season, this is a portrait of a Tennessee family during four days in May, 1915: the warm and tender love that binds them and the tragic death of the husband which shatters the hearts of his wife and young son. "A striking drama about death...A somber and Number of...

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by John Godber (Author)Bet and Al lead a quiet, humdrum life in their small Yorkshire home until Bet wins a 'Romantic Breaks' competition in a magazine. The prize, a holiday in Paris, represen's their first experience abroad and has profound effects on the way they look at the world around them once they return home.-1 woman, 1 man Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 01, 1993

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by Eugene O'Neill (Author)Revived in 1998 to acclaim at New York's Lincoln Center, Ah, Wilderness is a sharp departure from the gritty reality of the author's renowned dramas. Taking place over the July 4th weekend of 1906 in an idyllic Connecticut town, it offers a tender, retrospective portrait of small town family values, teenage growing pains, and young love. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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by Evelyn Waugh (Author)This portrait of the interweaving relationships and fortunes of a desperately charming, if eccentric, aristocratic family and their influences upon Charles Ryder has been faithfully adapted for the stage, preserving all the'sharp wit and candid social commentary of Waugh's narrative.Large flexible cast Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 09, 2015

Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, s'il vous pla�t - Paperback

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by David McGillivray (Author)The French farce has arrived at The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society, and the formidable ladies do it like no one else! An unintelligible plot, a plethora of doors and a grand range of characters make this Farndale offering as bubbly as a glass of champagne.-4 women, 1 man Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 29, 2015

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by Jean Anouilh (Author), Lewis Galantiere (Adapted by)Full Length, Tragedy / 8m, 4f Produced in modern dress in New York with Katherine Cornell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Galantiere version of the Greek legend comes from a Paris that suffered under the heel of tyranny. The play's parallels to modern times are exciting and provocative. "Its dimensions are noble, its intentions uncompromising."-Southwestern University, Texas Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes P...

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by Alice Chadwicke (Author), L. M. Montgomery (Author)Green Gables is the home of lovable Matthew Cuthbert and his stern sister, Marilla. They agree to adopt a boy to help with the farm work. Imagine their consternation when Anne Shirley, a girl in her teens, is sent by the orphanage by mistake Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.29 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2017

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by Lanie Robertson (Author)Play with Music / Music by Mel Marvin / 4m, 6f (34 characters) / Various sets. Similar in structure to Spoon River Anthology and Our Town, It's life - and in this case, violent death - in a small town, with music, tied together by a running commentary by the town's sole physician of many years. The author has a savvy sense of black comedy, all utilized in weaving a series of sordid tales of backwoods murder, and adultery. And each vignette is either compelling or ca...

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by James Roose-Evans (Author), Laurie Lee (Author)Poet Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in a small Cotswold village and grew up during a time of change when the rural traditions of past centuries were being swept aside in the path of twentieth-century progress. His autobiography Cider with Rosie, a poetic evocation of his childhood, has become a modern classic both in the United Kingdom and in America and is here imaginatively adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans.4 women, 5 men Number of Pag...

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by Paul Doust (Author)Orphan Flora Poste, heroine of Gibbons's tongue-in-cheek classic novel, likes everything to be tidy and comfortable so when she goes to live with her eccentric relatives at Cold Comfort Farm she tries to alter her surroundings and encourage other to greater things. But this proves difficult...6 women, 9 men Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 13, 2015

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by Tina Howe (Author)Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cals main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up, and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the foods quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. Theres a sensual middle aged couple who go into...

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by Emlyn Williams (Author)Miss Moffat settles in a remote Welsh mining village and starts a school for the local boys, one of whom, Morgan Evans, shows great promise. Miss Moffat determin's to do everything to help Morgan's application for a scholarship to Oxford. But Morgan rebels against help from a woman and falls prey to the flashy charms of Bessie Watty. His chances of success are almost destroyed but Miss Moffat's courageous wisdom and her affection for him win the day and Morgan wins t...

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by Neil Simon (Author)Comedy / 4m, 2f / Int. Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that...

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by Marc Camoletti (Author)Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo Theatre production. Bernard is planing a weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in a French farmhouse. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, is packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother's, and has even invited his best friend to provide the...

Communicating Doors - A Play - Paperback

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)This intricate time traveling comic thriller by the British master of farcical comedy delighted London and New York audiences. A London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for ...

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by Brian Friel (Author)Premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, this multi-award-winning play is about five impoverished spinster sisters in a remote part of County Donegal in 1936. With them live Michael, seven-year-old son of the youngest sister, and Jack, the sisters' elder brother, a missionary priest newly returned from Africa. The even's of that summer are narrated in recall by the adult Michael, unfolding a tender study of these women's lives.Back JacketIt is 1936 and harvest time in Count...

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by Christopher Durang (Author)Comedy Christopher DurangChacrters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set (Set may be simply suggested.) Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudenc N...

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by Michael Cooney (Author)Michael Cooney's riotous farce has all the ingredients for rib-tickling hilarity and offers a colourful selection of character roles. Eric Swan (aided by his Uncle George and unbeknown to his wife, Linda) has pocketed thousands of pounds through fraudulent DSS claims. When Norman Bassett (the lodger) opens the door to Mr Jenkins, the DSS Inspector, deceptive mayhem follows - as do the undertaker, bereavement counsellor, psychiatrist, Norman's fianc�e, a corpse, the o...

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by Bettine Manktelow (Author)An amateur company are rehearsing a play in an end-of-pier theatre when inexplicably they are locked in and one by one begin to die...5 women, 3 men Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 1998