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SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS by Richard Alfieri

2009/2008, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

What could a Southern Baptist widow in Florida possibly have in common with a gay dance instructor from New York? Perhaps more than you think. In this new American comedy, seventy-two-year-old Lily hires Michael, a former Broadway chorus boy now approaching middle age, to give her dance lessons in the hope of spicing up her…

THE COCKTAIL HOUR by A. R. Gurney

2009/2008, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

A young playwright returns home to get permission from his mother and father to produce a play he has written about them. His well-to-do (and rather stuffy) parents are horrified at the idea of their private life being exposed on stage, while his sister is furious that she is only a secondary figure in the…

CAUGHT IN THE NET by Ray Cooney

2009/2008, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

If you think your life is stressful, imagine the life of John Smith, a taxi driver who keeps two separate families in different parts of London. When his teenaged children (a girl from one family and a boy from the other) accidentally meet on the Internet and plan to see each other in person, John’s…

TREATS by Christopher Hampton

2009/2008, ArchiveBy English Theatre of Hamburg 8. December 2020

Why do people make the wrong decisions in matters of love ? This is the life dilemma that prize-winning playwright Christopher Hampton focuses on in this intelligent, witty play about sexual manners and manipulation. Ann has tried to free herself from Dave by taking on a new lover, Patrick, while Dave is away in Iraq.…