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ERIC CHAPPELL |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Eric Chappell Productions Ltd |
Eric Chappell took up full time writing in 1973 after his first stage play, The Banana Box, was produced at the Apollo Theatre, London. The play later inspired the classic TV comedy Rising Damp, winner of the BAFTA award for best situation comedy. In 1979 Eric's screen version won the Evening Standard Film award for best comedy. Other television successes include The Squirrels, The Bounder, Home to Roost (all of which won PYE TV awards), Only When I Laugh, Duty Free, Singles, Fiddlers Three and Haggard. Eric has written over 200 television comedy scripts and more than 20 stage plays which are performed worldwide. He is unquestionably one of the top writers of comedy in Britain today.
Plays by Eric Chappell
Ashes to Ashes | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68936 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Dave Thursby's friends are gathered at his funeral. Their memories of him are very different and often clash. When the mysterious Kay arrives to drop her bombshell everyone endeavours to keep up appearances for the sake of the widow. Later, when the time comes to dispose of the ashes and Dave's secret life is finally exposed, tempers and ashes fly. | |||||
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Banana Box, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre Club, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3EU >>> | 17 May 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6637 | |||
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Genre: | Light Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | a.k.a. Rising Damp | |||||
Synopsis: | The play that inspired the TV series Rising Damp was produced at the Apollo Theatre, London in 1973 with Leonard Rossiter, Francis de la Tour and Don Warrington in the leading roles. The play has now been revised under the title Rising Damp but is still firmly based in the late sixties. Amateur and repertory rights with Samuel French Ltd. | |||||
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Cut And Dried | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6638 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | We Don't Want to Lose You and Cut and Dried are completely self-contained one act plays but can be performed together as Fiddlers Three | |||||
Synopsis: | In the offices of Multiple Holdings, Rex, Harry and Osborne form a somewhat uncomfortable alliance against the management, as personified by the elegant, devious Fletcher. Cut and Dried opens with the news that Rex's job is now up for grabs and he will have to be interviewed for it along with everyone else - including Harry and Osborne. Harry's efforts to ingratiate himself with the bosses are more successful than Rex's and at the close he seems well on the way to the higher echelons & | |||||
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Dead Reckoning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Robin Hood Theatre, Averham | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68937 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A new play and something of a departure for the author, a thriller. When the mysterious Mr Todd arrives at Anthony reed's house and offers to kill his wife's murdered and so satisfy Reed's long desire for revenge - Reed, tempted, finally agrees. After making the decision Reed and Megan, his second wife, find themselves entering a nightmare from which there seems no escape. | |||||
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Double Vision | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Feb 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6639 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Myopic ex-boxer Spinks, an impecunious resident of a tower block, lets it be known that he has won the lottery. With the assistance of his alcoholic friend Kingsley he attempts to woo the twin sisters who have come after his alleged fortune. | |||||
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False Pretences | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057311125-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68938 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Estate agent Kevin and his wife Valerie are to be subjected to an extended visit from her brother Victor, a none too successful con artist who has just been released from prison. Victor is delighted to hear that wealthy widow Lucy is also staying with them and it isn't long before he sets about charming her with a valuable diamond bracelet he's got on approval from the local jeweller's using the unwitting Kevin as surety. But when events don't go quite according to plan Victor is forced to improvise very rapidly, not least with the bullish rugby playing bank manager, Tank, and his fellow team mate, Tom, the local jeweller. And then a surprise visitor turns up in the form of Soapy Simpson (not so much artist by appointment to Her Majesty but rather more detained at Her Majesty's pleasure). Will Kevin ever be able to hold his head up in the local community again? Will Tom ever get rid of the taste of washing crystals? Will Soapy manage to complete a portrait? Will Lucy fall prey to Victor's charms? Will nothing stop the incorrigible Victor ...? | |||||
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Father's Day | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62313 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | based on Eric Chappell's hit TV series Home To Roost | |||||
Synopsis: | This play inspired the TV series Home to Roost starring John Thaw and Reece Dinsdale. It tells of Henry Willows, a lonely and embittered divorcee, being visited one night by this wayward son, Matthew and Matthew's strange girlfriend Christine. Finally Henry's ex-wife, Sue, arrives in pursuit of Matthew. A strange reconciliation, sometimes stormy, sometimes romantic, takes place over the evening, much of this due to Matthew's guile. | |||||
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Fiddlers Three | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwold Theatre, Southwold | 21 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6640 | |||
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Genre: | 2 * 1 Acts One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | We Don't Want to Lose You and Cut and Dried are completely self-contained one act plays but can be performed together as Fiddlers Three | |||||
Synopsis: | A double bill of plays dealing with office life and the struggles of three accounts clerks, Rex, Harry and Osborne to address the twin problems and dismissal and promotion watched over by the steely JF. These plays were inspired by the TV series, The Squirrels, and Fiddlers Three starring Bernard Hepton, Ken Jones, Peter Davison and Paula Wilcox. | |||||
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Ground Rules | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68939 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | When Gerry and Judith, a long married couple, rescue Jo from an assault by her aggressive partner Ashley, one night in a pub they trigger off a chain of events that even Judith - trained in counselling - cannot control. | |||||
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Haunted | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6641 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nigel Burke, playwright, is neurotic and agoraphobic and hasn't written a word in three months much to the chagrin of his wife and agent. One night he is visited by the mysterious Potter who knows of Nigel's obsession with Lord Byron. Potter offers him the skull goblet once owned by Byron. Drinking from the goblet brings a profound change in Nigel and finally Byron's ghost appears. | |||||
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Haywire | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6642 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Alec Firth is having an affair with his assistant Liz and has organised his domestic life so that they can go to Spain without making his wife Maggie suspicious. What could go wrong? Plenty as the rest of the family arrive on the doorstep in rapid succession; Phoebe, Alec's mother, who has discharged herself from the old people's home; Alec's son Jamie who has a broken ankle, and finally his daughter Mandy who is heavily pregnant and refuses to marry the father. | |||||
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Heatstroke | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Little Theatre, Birkenhead, Merseyside | 19 May 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41513 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In a play which involves two couples disputing a holiday villa - assumed identities - a snake which has also taken up residence - a bag of stolen money - and a criminal known as Mad Dog Moon - we have all the ingredients of a mad, fast moving farce. The play has recently enjoyed a successful tour of the Uk under the title Snakes and Ladders starring Paul Nicholas and Ian Ogilvy. | |||||
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It Can Damage Your Health | ||
| 1st Produced: | Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, Somerset | 09 Feb 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6643 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | aka Only When I Laugh | |||||
Synopsis: | This play based on the hit TV show Only When I Laugh starring Peter Bowles and James Bolam. In recent years the stage version has toured Sweden, Australia and the Uk and starred such names as Geoffrey Hughes, Michael Elphick and Geoffrey Davies. The play traces the fortunes of a desperate trio in Men's Surgical. Together they form and uneasy alliance against the confusions and insecurities of hospital life. | |||||
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Mixed Feelings | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Apr 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68940 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | First performed at Malvern Theatre and subsequently toured to excellent reviews, the play starred Paul Nicholas, Mary Tamm and John Benfield. When Vernon, a suburban accountant, takes the plunge and becomes the woman he's always wanted to be he finds life very different to the one he imagined. He's leered at by taxi drivers, propositioned by his boss, pursued by his best friend and jealous mistress. But his main concern is will his wife and daughter understand him! | |||||
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Natural Causes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Archway Theatre Company, Horley, Surrey | 18 Aug 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6644 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Vincent is from Exodus, a euthanasia group that assists people in suicide. When he is invited to Walter Bryce's country house to assist in the disposal of Walter's wife he senses something is wrong. Why are the suicide notes unsigned? What is the role of Walter's attractive secretary? Why has the Samaritan been sent for? The play enjoyed a successful tour of the UK with George Cole playing the part of Vincent. | |||||
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Only When I Laugh | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Mill, Sonning, Berkshire | 36249 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Situation Comedy 2" Hutchinson, London, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6645 | |||
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Genre: | Situation Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | see It Can Damage Your Health | |||||
Synopsis: | Comedy set in a men's ward in a London hospital where three odd bedfellows share their social differences as well as their common goal to find out which is going to peg it! | |||||
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Passing Strangers | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68941 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Fickle Thing. . .memory'. Malcolm discovers how true his words are when he takes his unhappy and discarded friend, Clive, to a Singles' Evening. There they meet the upwardly-mobile Julie and the cynical, defiant Liz. As Malc tries to pair Clive off with Julie and break down the embittered Liz's defenses, he finds that life, like the evening, is full of surprises. | |||||
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Rising Damp | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Erith | 06 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62314 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | see The Banana Box | |||||
Synopsis: | Nostalgic comedy recreates the characters of this hilarious sit-com. | |||||
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Sitting Tenants | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68942 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Paula Price arrives at the Old Rectory one dark and rainy night accompanied by the landlord Nash. The flat is not what she was promised and Nash is guarded about her fellow tenants. When the tenants begin to reveal themselves the reason for the landlord's reticence becomes clear. . . | |||||
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Snakes And Ladders | ||
| 1st Produced: | Churchill Theatre, Bromley, Kent | 11 Jun 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115222 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sam Spencer and his wife Fay are about to enjoy the holiday of a lifetime in a luxurious Spanish village secretly 'borrowed' from her boss. Meanwhile, once-famous actor Howard Booth also 'borrows' the villa, bringing along his sharp-witted new girlfriend and all his old films on video. As they fight over the villa and avoid the snake asleep on the terrace, Howard realises that his prized bag of videos has been switched at the airport - with a bag full of cash! And when a sinister villain arrives to claim his money back, all hell breaks loose. . . | |||||
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Something's Burning | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6646 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This play was first produced at the Theatre Royal, Windsor and starred Joanna van Gyseghem and Christopher Blake. The play is a wry comedy centred on Nell, an attractive if acerbic woman who has been deserted by her husband and now feels at the crossroads of her life. Her affair with George Rush, a local teacher and poet, is going nowhere until the arrival of an older man. He provides the spark that causes the dying affair to erupt suddenly into flame. | |||||
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Summer End | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47285 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Emily Baines is a defiant, embattled old lady who resides in the Summer End retirement home. She believes that her previous companion has been murdered but no-one will listen to her, especially her new fellow tenant May Brewer. Emily points the finger of suspicion at everyone until it finally turns towards her. | |||||
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Suspicion | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68943 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | When a woman is attacked in a city car park the staff of Faraday Finance fall under suspicion - particularly Brian Heath who has been picked out at an identification parade and whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances. Inspector Rudkin is certain of Heath's guilt but the case becomes more complex as the investigation continues. | |||||
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Theft | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, Hampshire | 05 Aug 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6647 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Thriller Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | This play has enjoyed two successful tours of the UK, starring George Cole, Roy Hudd and Leslie Grantham. On returning from a night out two couples discover a burglar and apprehend him. They soon begin to wish they hadn't as he commences to disrupt two seemingly happy marriages and reveal certain uncomfortable truths about their honesty. | |||||
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Up and Coming | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41514 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play was first produced under its original title 'Up and Running' at the Theatre Royal, Windsor and starred Keith Barron and Susie Blake. Philip Conway is attending a party conference where he intends to make his thrust for power. On the night in question his position is compromised by various visitors including Vicky whose love promises to be a permanent embarrassment. | |||||
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We Don't Want To Lose You | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6648 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | We Don't Want to Lose You and Cut and Dried are completely self-contained one act plays but can be performed together as Fiddlers Three | |||||
Synopsis: | In the offices of Multiple Holdings, Rex, Harry and Osborne form a somewhat uncomfortable alliance against the management, as personified by the elegant, devious Fletcher. In We Don't Want to Lose You, Rex is ordered to sack Osborne, and, spurred on by Harry and the attractive Norma, offers Fletcher his own resignation in protest - and, to his horror, it is accepted! Norma comes to Rex's rescue with a spot of blackmail. | |||||
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We're Strangers Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eye Theatre, Eye, Suffolk | 01 Jun 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Josef Weinberger, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41512 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | First performed on TV with Geraldine McEwen and Ian Hendry as a two-hander and subsequently as a four-hander at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, the play eventually became the popular sitcom Duty Free. The play, like the series, deals with two warring couples on holiday in Spain. As in the original play the scene is set in the sixties and maybe played as a two-hander or four-hander and as a double bill or two one acts. | |||||
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Wife After Death | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057311475-5 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113332 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Dave Thursby was a hugely successful television comedian, a national treasure loved by the public, a devoted husband to his fragrant wife, a model client for his agent and a staunch friend to his faithful gag writer, Harvey. But when Dave unexpectedly pops his clogs, these close companions are left bereft. There's now a huge, aching void in their lives, and, worse still, some of them may be out of a job. Unless, of course, the repeats, television specials, biographies and newspaper tell-alls can fill the vacuum. | |||||
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