SIMON WILLIAMS
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Plays by Simon Williams
Boys Will Be Boys |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: sequel to Nobody's Perfect | ||||
Synopsis: The plot again concerns Myrtle Banbury, the queen of the romantic novel, who is in fact a divorced man, living with his daughter and his father, faced with the problem of explaining the whereabouts of Myrtle as an investigative journalist cum medium arrives to interview the famous author. Sheila Ballantine brings a nice touch of Louella Parsons' persona to the role. With microphone, ear pieces and speakers, the family sets up a three-way telephone call from Aunt Myrtle, who is supposedly somewhere up the Amazon. When the novelist's former wife arrives, having never met her ex-husband's talented Aunt Myrtle - who decides to put in an appearance - the ensuing scene between the two is beautifully played by Karen Ascoe and Williams. Gareth Thomas is the sympathetic father and Amy Williams - Williams' real daughter - proves she has inherited the family talent. | ||||
Double Death |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 2008 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Switchback | ||||
Synopsis: In an isolated house on the cliffs of north Cornwall the sibling rivalry between identical twins Max and Ashley Hennessy is coming to a murderous climax. They both know one of them must die, but, trapped in his wheelchair, Ashley knows the odds are now against him and he is in mortal danger - but does DI Fergus believe him? And can he trust Nurse Malahide, who has been employed to protect him? Poor Lalla, the twins' aunt, is torn between the two boys: which of them is the victim and which is the psychopath? Perhaps they have done it once again - pulled off the final "switch". | ||||
Hound of the Baskervilles, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Josef Weinberger Plays | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||||
Synopsis: When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in mysterious circumstances, his last remaining relative, Sir Henry Baskerville, travels home from America to claim his inheritance - Baskerville Hall, which lies on the edges of the wild moors of Devon. The local legends say that there is a curse on the Baskervilles, caused by Sir Hugo Baskerville's actions many years earlier. The curse has taken the form of a gigantic, ferocious hound, which stalks Dartmoor and has caused the death of successive generations of the Baskervilles. When Sir Henry turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for assistance, Holmes suspects a fiendish plot, and begins to unravel the mysteries of the moors in a race against time to save Sir Henry from the fate of his ancestors. | ||||
Kiss of Death |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 2005 | ||
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Laying the Ghost |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A dead actor returns to the world as a ghost intent on mediating his tangled relationships with three women | ||||
Nobody's Fool |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: As anyone familiar with Simon Williams' previous play Nobody's Perfect will know, the popular romantic novelist Myrtle Banbury is none other than divorced, male, statistician Lenny. In this sequel, Letitia Butters, presenter of the hit TV show Mind Your Own Business, wants to interview Myrtle Banbury in her own home and Lenny has a problem . . . How can he conduct the interview without having to appear to the great British public in drag? | ||||
Nobody's Perfect |
| 1st Produced: | The Mill, Sonning | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Unsuccessful novelist Leonard resorts to a female pseudonym and quickly finds success. But the only way it can continue is if he takes on the identity of his creation Myrtle Banbury in this fast and funny comedy | ||||
Switchback |
| 1st Produced: | Churchill Theatre, Bromley | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Double Death | ||||
Synopsis: In an isolated house on the cliffs of north Cornwall the sibling rivalry between identical twins Max and Ashley Hennessy is coming to a murderous climax. They both know one of them must die, but, trapped in his wheelchair, Ashley knows the odds are now against him and he is in mortal danger - but does DI Fergus believe him? And can he trust Nurse Malahide, who has been employed to protect him? Poor Lalla, the twins' aunt, is torn between the two boys: which of them is the victim and which is the psychopath? Perhaps they have done it once again - pulled off the final "switch". | ||||