AN IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde
Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant
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…
DetailsRELATIVELY 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…
DetailsMURDER 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.…
DetailsCALIFORNIA SUITE by Neil Simon
In CALIFORNIA SUITE Neil Simon is again the witty and accurate observer of marital and family relationships. He is also at his most humane and compassionate. This humorous confection is divided into four parts, each with a different situation and different characters. In “Visitor from New York
CANDIDA by G. B. Shaw
Shaw had two categories for his plays, those that were “pleasant
AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J. B. Priestley
AN INSPECTOR CALLS is usually seen as a social message wrapped in a detective story, or thriller. Penned in 1945 but set in 1912, the author was writing from his personal experience of two world wars and was warning of another one to come unless people changed their behaviour. For him this meant taking moral…
DetailsABSURD PERSON SINGULAR by Alan Ayckbourn
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…
DetailsBETRAYAL by Harold Pinter
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…
DetailsBUTTERFLIES ARE FREE by Leonard Gersche
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE was first produced at the Booth Theatre in New York and was named the best play of the 1969/70 season. Eileen Hekkart played the mother, Keir Dullea her son Don, and Blythe Danner did the part of Jill. Ralph was played by Michael Glaser. The film version, which followed three years later…
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