Aston, a young man in his early thirties, rescues a poor old tramp from a fight. He brings him home to his room in a large house, gives him a place to sleep and offers him a job as caretaker. The tramp is reluctant to take the job, but he obviously likes the shelter and…
Is life a circle, a journey that keeps repeating itself? This seems to be the question the playwright is asking in this amusing play. Lady Kitty, who gave up a boring life with her titled husband to run away with a young adventurer, watches her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, about to do the same thing thirty years…
This long-running Broadway comedy (also a popular film) is not only about a love affair taking place once a year. It is also a reflection of 25 years of American manners, morals and attitudes mirrored in the changing lives and personalities of its two characters. George picks up Doris in a California inn in 1951,…
This play (as well as the musical CABARET) was adapted from THE BERLIN STORIES of Christopher Isherwood (1904—1986). It looks at life in a Berlin rooming house of 1930 with a photographic eye. Chris is a struggling young writer whose novel, I AM A CAMERA, concerns the events occurring around him in the Berlin of…
DON’T MISUNDERSTAND ME opened in May of 1984 at the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead. From the very beginning the play has been extremely popular with audiences and critics. After a tour of Sweden in 1985 and the U.K. in 1986, the play has gone on to successful runs in theatres across the U.K. and abroad. This…
I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT! was named in a recent Toronto Globe & Mail retrospective on Canadian theatre as “probably the most produced Canadian play ever.” The play has grossed over $8 million world wide, and has had countless productions in Canada, the USA and Europe, placing the author among the top playwrights working in…
TWELFTH NIGHT (“Was Ihr wollt
Vicky, who runs a bookshop, is overweight. She suffers, good humouredly enough, the negative remarks of the two characters who share her home next to the shop: James, a Scottish youth who works as an au pair, and Henry, a not-so-young gay man. When a customer—a handsome man of thirty—seems attracted to her, she resolves…
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.…
Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant