CANDIDA by G. B. Shaw
Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant
MURDER IN GREEN MEADOWS by Douglas Post
MURDER IN GREEN MEADOWS was first produced in 1986 as a one-act teleplay, as part of the NBC Chicago Playwrights Festival, in a cooperative venture between WMAQ-TV and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. It received its world premiere as a full length two-act play at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton, England in 1992.…
RELATIVELY SPEAKING by Alan Ayckbourn
RELATIVELY SPEAKING concerns two couples, one young and one middle-aged, each containing one unfaithful partner. Greg wants to marry Ginny, who has only recently broken off an affair with her boss, Philip. Ginny goes down to Philip’s country home to get back some love letters, after telling Greg that she is going to visit her…
BIRTHDAY SUITE by Robin Hawdon
BIRTHDAY SUITE was first produced at the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham in 1983. Subsequently there were two national tours and many provincial productions. It has also been produced in France, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Holland, Poland, South Africa, and the United States. The fast moving comedy takes place in two adjoining hotel bedrooms. Geoff Tippett tells his…
AN IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde
Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant
CLIFFHANGER by James Yaffe
Should ethics be based on the ideals of Socrates or on the real situation one faces? The author of the play sees no reason why such a serious question should not be posed in an entertaining and theatrical manner. Henry Lowenthal, long-time professor of philosophy is looking forward to a semi-retirement position at the college…
COME BLOW YOUR HORN by Neil Simon
There is a time in everyone’s life when you have to get serious, quit acting like a child and start acting like a grown-up. This would seem to be the message, if there is one, in Neil Simon’s autobiographical play COME BLOW YOUR HORN. Known later in Germany under three different titles (Leg doch endlich…
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK by Neil Simon
After a six day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer, who has just won his first case 6 cents in damages, and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high rent apartment that she has chosen for them But the difficulty is, in order to enjoy the…
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE by Frank Marcus
Sister George is a famous character in a BBC soap opera series, a nurse who cycles about singing hymns, doing good deeds, and spreading cheer. Because of the struggle for ratings, and because there is gossip of notoriety in her personal life, the BBC decides to “kill her off” by having her involved in an…
AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare, adapted by Clifford Dean
The play is set in a duchy in France, but most of the action takes place in a location called the Forest of Arden..’ Frederick has usurped the Duchy and exiled his older brother, Duke Senior. The Duke’s daughter Rosalind has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin…