Bernard, an American architect living in Paris, thinks he has the perfect set-up. He has proposed marriage to three beautiful young women of different nationalities: Italian, German and American. Each one is an airline hostess, and thanks to their different stopover times in Paris, Bernard is able to entertain them separately in his at without…
3 September – 31 October 2020 Well known for his hilarious comedies, this play shows Ayckbourn entering new territory for a change and doing it brilliantly. Result: a suspenseful thriller with murder, blackmail, wind chimes that mysteriously play themselves, power cuts, threatening sounds – and all spiced with Ayckbourn’s classic British humour. The play is…
Classic Blues Women – Americas first Royalty Starring Joanne Bell with Hans Malte Witte Touching, funny, sarcastic and informative. The amazing Joanne Bell, seen before in “Bessie and Billie”, “Porgy and Bess” and “Ain’t Missbehaving” takes you on an entertaining journey through some of the orgin’s of Blues music. The actress singer portrays some of…
First production by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 1980, this comedy was later transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre where it won three major awards from the critics. It was one of the longest running plays in London`s recent theatrical history and was turned into an award winning film starring Michael Caine and Julie…
In this fast moving British comedy Jim invites his super moral American boss and wife to dinner. Since the boss insists that his employees be married if they are living together, Jim asks his live-in girlfriend, Helen, to pose as his wife for the evening. The request infuriates Helen who has been waiting for ages…
How many insults can you hear before you stand up for the women you love? Tom, a young business executive, meets Helen, an intelligent, funny, but overweight librarian. They date and fall in love, but Helen`s plus-size causes trouble for Tom back in his office. His best friend and colleague, Carter, treats the relationship as…
How far would you go for love? This is the focus of THRILL ME, which takes a new look at the legendary “thrill killers”, Leopold and Loeb, who committed what was called the crime of the century in Chicago in 1924. The court trial concluded that the two young men murdered their victim simply for…
Bernard Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant” and those that were “unpleasant”. CANDIDA he put among the pleasant ones, and it is easy to see why. A box office hit in its time (1904), this British classic continues to be one of Shaw’s most popular plays. It deals with a young poet,…
Derek Benfield was a master at writing farces. Webster’s New Universal Dictionary defines the word “farce” as “a light humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.” In ANYONE FOR BREAKFAST? the characters differ enough to make them interesting, but the plot takes precedence over character…
THE WHIPPING MAN takes place over a period of three days in April, 1865. The American Civil War (1861—1865), which saw the northern states fighting against the southern states to end slavery and preserve the unity of the country, has just ended. The North has won the war, so all over the South the slaves…