BAD BLOOD was first presented at the Theatre Royal, Windsor on 28 January, 2003. Doug Rollins, the husband of Pamela Hall, played the role of Jack in the original production. Pamela has appeared recently in I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES and APRIL IN PARIS at The English Theatre of Hamburg. In the play, Tom and Victoria are an ideal couple with everything money…
One of the greatest plays of the American theatre, THE GLASS MENAGERIE tells the story of a St. Louis family struggling to cope with the harsh realities of the Great Depression. Son Tom is torn between his role as the family bread-winner and the desire to lead a life of his own. His sister Laura…
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…
First produced at the National Theatre in London in 1978, BETRAYAL was a popular success on both sides of the Atlantic. It won, in New York, the Drama Critics Circle Award as best foreign play and, in London, the West End Award as best play of the season. It was filmed in 1983 with Ben…
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR takes place on three successive Christmas Eves in the kitchens of three different couples. In Act I, the “lower-class” but ambitious Hopcrofts give a party for their bank manager and his wife, and an architect neighbour. The Hopcrofts are nervous because the people they have invited might be useful to them on their…