It's a dark and stormy night. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor's feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in - and her dangerous voyage begins.★★★★ 'An imaginative adaptation which keeps alive the wit and excitement of the book.' Guardian ★★★★ 'Witty. Playful. A richly enjoyable show.' Financial Times ★★★★ 'Ambitious and magical. Thrillingly executed.' The StageTreasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of murder, money and mutiny, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in December 2014, in a thrilling adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Maurice plans to eliminate his half-brother Colin, but Colin's unhappy wife is also prompted to murder him. When the body is found the question arises: who is responsible? Meanwhile, Maurice regards his neurotic wife, Janet, as an impediment to his plans and uses his hypnotic influence to compel her to kill herself. Fortunately for Janet, Colin's shady business activities had already attracted official attention as the play races towards a thrilling and unusual climax.| 5 women, 4 men
The elderly Lady Ash brook is brutally murdered, for no apparent reason, in her London home during a scorching heatwave. Concentrating his enquiries on three main suspects, Chief Superintendent Briers discovers the murderer but has no proof and his ultimate dilemma is what to do with the man he knows to be guilty. Ronald Millar's skilful dramatization of C. P. Snow's novel was premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, in 1982.
Returning home after a disastrous and abandoned visit to the theatre, hi-jacked by Gerry's lively mother, Mary, Gerry and Kate attempt to salvage the evening at a local restaurant - but it just makes a bad evening out into a worse one. Daughter Louise and her boyfriend Julian are key players in this comedy of marital mishap and mid-life crisis, as are Mary and her beau, Roy. However, the end of this amusing and highly perceptive play finds Gerry and Kate caught on the sofa for all the world themselves like mischievous teenagers.|3 women, 3 men
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again.
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley's much-loved, pantomine version of Dick Whittington or Love in the Key That Opens Every Door.
Mrs Meldon is entertaining her usual party for the Christmas week. The pleasure is not, however, unalloyed. The difficult Aunt Topsey is among the guests, and the easily offended Uncle Ned is expected. The couple detest each other. Moreover, Mrs Meldon's daughters are not on the best of terms. Olivia, the elder, is strongly attracting Tony Martley, a young artist, who has generally been regarded as her sister Ann's future fiancé...
Playback is a play for five women. Faith and Edith Fellowes are spending a normal, uneventful afternoon, when a strange woman is seen leaning over their garden gate. They bring her in, to find that she is apparently suffering from loss of memory. When they summon the police, however, the woman· detective is a little sceptical, as such tricks have been used before by thieves. She takes an early opportunity of going through the stranger's handbag.It appears to contain nothing incriminating; but the arrival of a doctor, and some further questioning, unveil something a good deal more sinister than petty theft.
Complete with double-dyed villain and a radiantly pure hero and heroine, this melodrama takes the spellbound audiencefrom Lucre Hall, across the Atlantic to where there is gold in them thar hills, and back to Lucre Hall again. Sir Jasper, of theblack heart, is out to win Lady Lucre's fortune via the hand of the lovelly Ara be Ila; and Clarence, of the pure heart, is out tothwart him and also win Arabella. Through valleys of iniquity they all travel, the journey being enlivened by the wiles of thevoluptuous Fanny, who of course aids and abets Sir Jasper. Virtue is triumphant at the last and Clarence and Arabella areunited over the dead bodies of their enemies.
Rodion is medical head of a sanatorium where Lydia is a patient, suffering from arteriosclerosis. She is clearly no ordinary patient and the play follows with warmth and gentle humour the mutual growth of interest and liking to lasting affection between two lonely people.|1 woman, 1 man
Zany, madcap events transpire at the Reverend Lionel Toop¿s vicarage in Merton-cum-Middlewick. The plot revolves around Lionel¿s wife, Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Idäs suitor, the droll Willie Briggs. The most fantastic complications ensue when the triumvirate wins, or when they think they have won, more than 20,000 English pounds. Lending richly comic hands are the old maid parishioner, Miss Skillon, and Penelope¿s out-of-this-world uncle, The Bishop of Lax.|3 women, 4 men
Alberto and Francesca have grown up together. Alberto hardly notices her and does not realise that she is in love with him. Francesca determines to win Alberto over on the village's annual picnic but then finds out that Alberto is not going - he is to leave for the city and a new job.|6 women, 5 men
Luther Stringer is the titular head of a Yorkshire working-class family of wife and three daughters - one married, one engaged, one a student.His middle daughter's "fiancy" is in bad odour with him for refusing to participate in a strike and being sent to Coventry. This dissension, however, pales into insignificance before the hornet's nest that is stirred up when Luther's eldest daughter discovers in her father's pocket a packet of "electronically tested" contraceptives. The women's reaction is instant and their vengeance terrible, but the result is unexpected and perhaps unwelcome. Stringer's Last Stand, however interpreted, may not be as cataclysmic as Custer's, but - it certainly shakes up a Yorkshire household.
One of four plays by the late English actress, writer and dramatist, Mary Hayley Bell, Duet for Two Hands ran on Broadway in 1947. A classic thriller about a pioneering surgeon and the sinister results of his work.
Rachel wants to run away from home and is unwittingly transported back to 1927 when orphan trains carried destitute city children to the Midwest for possible adoption.This charming show for young audiences by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth focuses on how divisions created by race and class can be overcome with friendship.
David Mamet Full Length, ComedyCharacters: 3 male (1 non-speaking) Bare stageThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-The-Plow, takes us into the lives of two actors: John, young and rising into the first flush of his success; the other Robert, older, anxious, and beginning to wane. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges, we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider, inevitable and
Comedy / Characters: 2 male, 1 femaleScenery: InteriorIn this side-splitting and thought-provoking new comedy, Leon and Bill concoct a list of attributes of the ideal womanthe top ten best qualities in a mate. When this allegedly 'Ideal Woman' actually arrives on the scene the men quickly learn that their list could use a few revisions. Be careful what you wish for--especially in choosing a mate. This old adage leads to hilarious results in Foster's sparkling new comic hit."Sharp, sna
A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries, overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next-door neighbor, she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid's date, a p
This lively play was a 1954 hit on Broadway and a 1956 film. It concerns an elderly Western rancher, his three children, and an itinerant con artist who boasts he can save their drought-parched herd by creating rain. The major focus is on the spinster daughter, Lizzie Curry, who naturally falls for the con artist. The relationship is aided by that fact that Lizzie's father and two brothers seem more worried about her marital prospects than about the drought that's killing their cattle.
Mystery Comedy / Characters: 4 males, 5 femalesSet Rewuirements: InteriorPeter Knight is grinding out a murder story in an old mansion where another author was murdered years before. A weird electrical storm effects a cosmic snafu and his characters come to life. There's the lovely ingenue, the trusty butler, a feisty character woman, a dauntless hero, a fascinating "other woman," the always pregnant serving girl, and the wily lawyer waiting for midnight to read the will. Peter looses con
Julia Lukin, a musical prodigy, committed suicide twelve years ago and now memories of her haunt the three men closest to her. Her father, Joe, has never come to terms with her death, and in the Julia Lukin Music Centre, he meets with a psychic, Ken, and Julia's boyfriend, Andy - the last person to see her alive, in hope of finding some answers. The men meet in Julia's old bedroom and Joe reveals that he believes Julia is trying to contact him in order to explain what happened. Between the three men, the story of Julia's life and death is gradually revealed - often at odds with what each man believes he knew.
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