Seaside Postcard is a comedy for four men and four women, originally presented by the Young Vic Company, London. The group assembled on the beach could almost be regarded as characters from typical seaside postcards brought to life. During their brief sojourn much happens. Terry, heir to three fish and chip shops, becomes engaged to Sharon but anticipates marriage with her; the meek worm Martin suddenly turns; an unfortunate explosion shatters the sunbathing calm, a wife-swapping seems imminent and a rising tide threatens the lot of them.
For his ninth labor, Heracles is required to wrest from the queen of the Amazons her belt. Zeus and Hera comment wittily on the events."The characters are witty and ... the story is frothy and politely risque" New York Journal American
Plays for five ladies. Including: Mothers Know Best: A Miniature Domestic Comedy, Four Characters And A Corpse: A Miniature Murder Mystery, Mixing with the Right People: A Miniature Farce, The Tinder Girl: A Miniature Ghost Story, The Sitter-In: A Miniature Crime Comedy and Jeannie: A Miniature Drama.
Six fifteen-minute comedies, including: The Clean Up, Trying to Take Things Quietly, Scherzo in Two Flats, Father's Economy Drive, Art for Art's Sake and The Man who Understood Women.
“Do you think dreams are wasted on people like us?”It’s a hot and humid summer in 1958 St Ann’s, Nottingham. Tempers are flaring and Teddy Boys are on the march.Jamaican couple Pearl and George are helping Caribbean migrants to cut loose by hosting a forbidden party at their shebeen.Pearl has dreams of opening a restaurant on the Wells Road. George, a retired boxer, has hung his dreams next to his gloves. A young interracial couple are falling in love and figuring out how to be together.As tensions mount on a night filled with rum, calypso and dancing, and with the shebeen under threat from the police, everyone is forced to confront the uncomfortable truths their relationships are built upon.Shebeen is the winner of The Alfred Fagon Award 2017 for best new play.
Based on characters created by Guy de Maupassant, this play gives a vibrant glimpse of life in a French "establishment" of 1888 which is both sad and humorous. Candice comes to rescue her friend Yvette from what she believes to be Mme. Tellier's den of iniquity only to have her prim sensibilities revolted by Madame's practical defence of her brothel and Yvette's refusal to leave her life of comfort. As Madame and her girls celebrate Yvette's birthday with much wine and a spirited version of the can can, Van Gogh sends Yvette a present of his ear. This bizarre gesture has a compelling attraction for Candice who determines to stay-- but only as a wine waitress!
A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz, inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, tells the story of the 38th Welsh Division’s attack on Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive of 1916. Set within the context of a contemporary battlefield tour and moving between the present day, the 1950s and WWI, the play transports an audience into the frontline trenches and the intimate fears, hopes and loves of the young soldiers risked and gave their lives in their attempt to take the wood.“The finest commemoration of the First World War centenary I’ve seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life.” Dominic Cavendish, DAILY TELEGRAPH“an astounding exploration – melding narrative and poetry – of the Battle of Mametz Wood” Carolyn Hitt, WESTERN MAIL
Elephant and Castle, London. 1956. Saturday night. Teddy and Josie are about to hit the streets of London for a good time.
“Nothing can go missing. No wool, no kits. Especially no needles”Lady Anne Tree – one of the most aristocratic women in England – spent her life in prisons. As a visitor, she saw first-hand the aggression, low self-esteem, and high reoffending rates among the most hardened criminals. Lady Anne thought she had the answer. She would teach them needlecraft.Based on a true story, this is an inspiring and heart-warming debut play by best-selling novelist Esther Freud, directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Gaby Dellal.Praise for Esther Freud.“A superbly gifted writer” NEW YORK TIMES“Fresh, witty, involving and touching” INDEPENDENTEsther Freud’s first novel Hideous Kinky was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. Granta named her one of the Best Young Novelists under 40. She has since written seven novels, including The Sea House, Love Falls, Lucky Break and most recently Mr Mac & Me.
It’s Virgie’s eighty-fourth birthday and she is bucking convention. But, always more committed as an artist than a mother, Virgie has not reckoned on her family and friends’ determination to thwart her plans. This is a moving black comedy that reimagines the meaning of family.
This play focuses on the zany world of the movie extra. Novice Mary is sent to the film shoot of a dubious sci-fi movie. At the early morning call she is initiated by seasoned pros, morose Malcolm and camp Roddy, but with the arrival of wealthy, eccentric Victoria, matters become decidedly wacky.
Two plays set in the offices of Multiple Holdings. Rex, Harry and Osborne form an uncomfortable alliance against the management, as personified by Fletcher. In "We Don't Want to Lose You", Rex is ordered to sack Osborne, and "Cut and Dried" opens with the news that Rex's job is up for grabs.
In April de Angelis's hilarious makeover of the bedside "classic" prostitute Fanny sacks her (male) biographer and tells it like it REALLY was - with the aid of two foul-mouthed, fellow sex workers, a stuffed sock and a cello.
3Women, the hilariously frank debut play from the award-winning comedian and writer Katy Brand, is a tale of female family bonding and buried resentment, it raises the question – what does it mean to be a woman in the twenty-first century?This story places three generations of women and their own very different identities and opinions into one hotel suite for a single night of redemption. What will be revealed?
A dark sequel to Peter Pan, this new story reunites J. M. Barrie's characters, now in their early twenties, when a young officer falls asleep with a copy of the children’s classic in his pocket and imagines himself as Peter embarking on one final “awfully big adventure" - The First World War.Blending a contemporary music theatre style with music hall influences, Lost Boy premiered at the Finborough Theatre before transferring for an extended run at the Charing Cross Theatre in the West End.Phil Willmott’s past musicals include The Dick Barton Trilogy, Around the World in Eighty Days, Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi and Princess Caraboo (also composed with Mark Collins) all published by Samuel French.
The lives and loves of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst, the three daughters of Emmeline Pankhurst, the figurehead of Britain's radical Suffragette movement. The Pankhursts were a family divided, a family often at war. Christabel dedicated her life to the cause and let nothing, not even the pursuit of love and happiness, stand in the way of women's emancipation. By 1918 when the battle for women's suffrage had finally been won, Sylvia was estranged from the Suffragettes and from her own mother and Christabel, and Adela, the youngest, had been banished by Christabel to Australia. The musical tells the stories of these three remarkable sisters set against the First World War and other great events of the time. The story culminates with the victory of the Suffragettes and the disintegration of the Pankhurst family.
One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.
Complications abound when Charles and Margery entertain Robert and his new wife, Jane, whom they have never met. Robert arrives without Jane and Charles con des that he hada brief a air with Jane. He has covered his tracks by not giving her his address. Minutes later Jane arrives on the doorstep! Charles passes her o as Robert's missing wife, while tellingJane that Margery is married to Robert. This wild deception is compounded by the arrival of another attractive girl. As the men struggle to keep the women from revealing their true identities, Margery herself is keeping a secret.
Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her mid-fifties, needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robyn's secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life - and what happens when the wheels come off.
1924. The Paris Olympic Games.A devout Scottish Christian runs for the glory of God. The son of an immigrant Lithuanian Jew runs to overcome prejudice. Two young track athletes who live for the beautiful purity of running and who prevail in the face of overwhelming odds.Based on the extraordinary true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, Chariots of Fire is an Olympic tale of hope, honour and belief.
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
The eve-of-performance dress rehearsal of a costume show is in progress and things are running anything but smoothly for thelocal drama group. The whole cast is panicking as Britannia cannot climb on to her rostrum, Queen Victoria is far too tall forher part and Henry VIII wants to swap costumes with William Shakespeare because his is many sizes too big for him. To makethings worse the authoress keeps storming on and o the stage putting everybody in a urry . However, when all seems lost, Mrs Grandway, the producer, pulls the show together and with a tinge of professionalism in her voice reassures the troupe thattomorrow everything will go all right.
Ever Feel Like you're constantly disappointing people? Meet Rumi. Rumi is a British Pakistani woman who's referred to as a 'Coconut' (brown on the outside, white on the inside). Born and brought up as a Muslim, Rumi spends more time enjoying fine wine and bacon than being at the mosque.When she meets Simon, a white guy, she hopes that his decision to convert to Islam will be enough to keep everyone happy. However, as Simon begins to explore his faith, Rumi's world spins off its axis in ways she could never have predicted.'Mir's writing is side-achingly funny...hits both a zeitgeist and the universality of coming to terms with your own identity' FemaleArts
Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted. Their illicit love affair drags young Leo into an adult world of passion and intrigue. This haunting, ambitious musical by Richard Taylor and David Wood is a deeply moving coming-of-age story, exploring the shadows the past can cast on the present.Based on the classic novel by L.P. Hartley, the West End production of this award-winning musical starred Michael Crawford.
The Long Mirror recounts the meeting between a composer and a young woman who seems to have been telepathically connected to him for some time, and has experienced much of his life before actually meeting him. Her knowledge of his past can help his future as an artist and a husband. It was based on a true incident.
Set eight months following Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (in which 144 people were killed; 116 of them children) The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of a group of bereaved mothers who met every week above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their meetings, the women looked at each other and admitted how much they felt they'd let themselves go. So afraid that people would think them frivolous, they secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips.
Love story or ghost story? This play shows a man and a woman meeting, apparently on a park bench, apparently to say goodbye. But who is leaving and why?
A group of women gather at a bus stop and indulge in gossip to pass the time. There are two women, unamed, joined by Mrs Hickery armed with a bag of chips wrapped in newspaper and then by Mrs Finney carrying a shopping bag which she scatters all over the floor. Two well-dressed and not very frequent bus users arrive and there is a little touch of class conflict which never gets very deep. Finally they are confronted by a 'Bookworm', who, when she sees them standing there, informs them that they are going to have a long wait - there is a bus strike!7 women
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