Library Theatre, Scarborough

1974

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Samuel French, London, 1975

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Social Comedy

Comedy

3

3

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Colin's friends are determined to comfort him in his grief over the death of his fiancée - a girl they have never met. They arrange a tea-party for him and are understandably on edge wondering what to say to him as they await his arrival. Their unease, however, has deeper roots as they are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties and by the time Colin arrives their tension contrasts dramatically with his cheerfully relaxed air.

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1972

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Samuel French, London, 1974

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Comedy

3

3

-

-

We visit three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years: the lower-class Hopcrofts; their bank manager and his wife and their architect neighbour with a suicidal wife. Running like a darker thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts and the declines of the others.

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2008

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Samuel French, London

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Musical

5

5

-

Words by Alan Ayckbourn, music by Denis King

tells the familiar story of Sleeping Beauty, otherwise known as the princess Aurora (Alice Fearn), who, on her 18th birthday, pricks her finger and falls asleep for 100 years because of a curse placed on her by her wicked godmother, Carabosse. As in the classic, a handsome prince (Duncan Patrick) arrives to wake her with a kiss. In this instance, however, happy ever after isn't looking quite so assured because Carabosse decides she has also fallen in love. Denis King provides the music for Ayckbourn's lyrics and book.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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1983

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Revue

Show

3

3

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-

Backnumbers was a compilation of songs from previous revues by Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd. There were two variants of it: Tuesday and Thursday, each with different songs and a different cast.

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1975

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1977

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Comedy

4

4

-

-

Three bedrooms are presented simultaneously on stage and the action between three households flows in and out from one to the other during this hectic night. There are Ernest and Delia celebrating an anniversary with pilchards on toast after a disastrous meal out; Malcolm and Kate preparing a house-warming party and Nick and Jan, the former resting his injured back in bed. The marital disasters of Trevor and Susannah weave in out and out of the bedrooms.

Mermaid Studio, London

1992

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Play/Drama

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Attic Theatre, Wimbledon

1992

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Revue

Show

2

1

-

music by Paul Todd

Between The Lines was a revue compiled from songs by Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd, loosely arranged into a love triangle story. The book was written by Paul Todd and it is to be emphasised that Alan is credited solely as the lyricist for this piece.

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1990

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Samuel French, London, 2002

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play for anyone who has body

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5

3

extras

Body Language was revised by Alan Ayckbourn in 1999.

Journalist Jo has a problem with her body. She hates the sight of it. The more she eats and drinks to forget it, the more of it there is to remind her. Photographic model Angie has a problem too. People won't stop looking at hers. Women with envy or sometimes open hostility. Men with - well, God knows what the men are thinking. But what if Amd Gie and Jo could choose to change places with each other? And what if they didn't have any choice in the matter?

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1985

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Revue

Show

1

1

-

music by Paul Todd

linked lunch time show

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1998

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Faber & Faber, London, 2000

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Childrens

Youth Audience

4

2

doubling

Written to celebrate The National Year of Reading in 1998.

A cautionary tale about reading in bed, that's full of laughs, a few scares and a lot of music! When Kevin falls asleep in the middle of an un-put-down-able book, he wakes to find himself in the thick of the action and in considerable danger. How will he ever get home again? The simple solution, of course, is to work his way back along the bookshelf towards his bed. But what other books will he have to pass through to get there? Will they prove equally as challenging? Help. . .!

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1996

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Original cast recording: MCA (MCF-2726

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Musical

7

3

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By Jeeves was rewritten and revised from Jeeves. The play opened the new Stephen Joseph Theatre and was described by the theatre as: "An almost entirely new musical.". Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Proudly presenting an evening in the company of that celebrated raconteur, man about town, wit, bon viveur and banjo player extraordinaire, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, Esq. . .. . .Or so the published programme would have it .But, alas, even men of genius can have their plans thwarted. How can any banjo player, however gifted, begin to pluck a note when some philistine has stolen his instrument, by George? How can he possibly hope to entertain the eager throng until a replacement banjo arrives, by Jove? Is there no one to step in and snatch the charred streaky from the bonfire, by Jeeves? By Jeeves. . .

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1990

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Samuel French, London, 1995

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Childrens

Youth Audience

3

1

monster

rewritten in 1999 as Callisto 7

For eight years, young Jem has sat in space station Callisto 5, patiently awaiting the return of his parents. Eight years. . . with only Damaris (the robot nanny) and the disembodied voice of Iris (the computer) for company. Eight years of macaroni cheese for breakfast, lunch and supper. . .It's enough to drive a boy crazy - until a new, unexpected, and rather dangerous creature arrives on Callisto

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1999

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Childrens

Youth Audience

2

2

-

reworking of Callisto 5

Thirteen year old Jodi and her nine-year old brother Jem have spent the past five years abandoned on a uniplex on the moon of Callisto. With only the computer IRIS and the malfunctioning PADWAC for company, they have become restless. But they must learn to work together when a monster, invisible except to video, infiltrates the uniplex. Eventually the monster is defeated and revealed to be a game engineered by IRIS. At the same time, the children's parents return having been marooned during a rescue mission to help the other Uniplexes.

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1996

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in "Plays 2" Faber, London, 1998

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Childrens

Youth Audience

7

3

-

-

An adventure, a love story, a fantasy. . .Murganah loves Ahmed, Ahmed loves Murganah. But he is a royal prince and is destined for a world that can never include a lowly maidservant. This is the story of the two different paths they choose - one right and one wrong. And of their final fateful meeting. . .And of a magic carpet. And of an incredible mechanical man. And of an enchanted cave. And of a meeting with the bookmarker creature. And of a magic apple. And of much, much more. . .

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1998

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Revue

Show

3

2

-

Music Denis King, Simon Cryer

Remember revue as it used to be? Dazzling dance routines, glittering costumes, a full chorus with a 20 piece orchestra, witty quickfire sketches, a whirling extravaganza of sound and colour. . .?Well forget all that. Instead, welcome to the real world of modern, low budget, underfunded enjoyment .BUT NEVER FEAR! Fortunately, we have managed to secure the services of The Very Last Actor We Can Afford This Year - entertainer Reg Pittock, fresh from his highly successful holiday camp season at Portsea. Singer, dancer and all round entertainer Reg (plus a few promised special guest friends) will keep you in stitches, humming along with your toes tapping.

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1984

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Samuel French, London, 1985

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Comedy

7

6

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Amateur operatic society mirrors Beggar's Opera. British embarrassment in face of emotion.

Victoria Theatre, Stoke on Trent

1962

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Childrens

Youth Audience

6

3

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-

Father Christmas faced with a strike by his gnomes. "The most disastrous play I have ever done".

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1998

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Faber & Faber, London, 1999

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Comedy

5

5

doubling

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Is comedy humanity's divine gift? Or its own invention, designed to make the rest of life bearable? Either way, could it conceivably be appreciated by a mere machine? And could such laughter ever lead to love? Adam and JCF 31333, star-crossed, mis-matched lovers of the next millennium, face an uncertain future where everything has changed except human nature. Two of the television crew are an "item".

Scarborough: Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, EUR >>>

1994

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Faber & Faber, London, 1995

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Comedy Thriller

Thriller

3

3

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time travel for a sex specialist who stumbles into a murder plot 1978/1998/2014

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1974

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Samuel French, London, 1977
Methuen Drama student edition, London, 2007 >>>

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5 Playlets

One Act

12

9

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Between Mouthfuls; Drinking Companion; A Talk In The Park; Gosforth's Fete; Mother Figure. Methuen Drama, London >>>

Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in The Drinking Companion an absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth's Fete whilst A Talk in the Park is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable.

Hampstead Theatre, London, EUR >>>

1969

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in Mixed Doubles - An Entertainment On Marriage, Methuen, London, 1970

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Short dialogue

One Act

1

1

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Originally presented as one of eight plays under the title "We Who Are About To. . ." at the Hampstead Theatre Club on February 6th 1969, which was subsequently presented as "Mixed Doubles" at the Comedy Theatre, London on April 9th 1969

Mixed Doubles, 'an entertainment on marriage,' takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters. . . Each is an independent play in its own right but the whole sequence, linked by a series of wickedly anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly adds up to an amusing if acid picture of the progress of married life from honeymoon to cemetry

Televised

1984

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Samuel French, London, 1991

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TV 1 Act

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1

3

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Dark sinister secrets from an illusionist's past.

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1960

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-

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Childrens

Youth Audience

3

2

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as Roland Allen

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Duchess, London

2002

Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Production

Faber & Faber, London, 2002

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Three Plays

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3

4

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comprises: Gameplan, Flatspin, Roleplay

First produced Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough, 2001

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1960

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One Act

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-

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only ever presented in amateur production

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1992

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Samuel French, London, 1997

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Musical Play

Musical

4

4

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music by John Pattison

comic battle of the sexes illustrating the disparity between romantic ideals and earthly reality, proving once again that true love is impossible but also desperately necessary

Mermaid Studio, London

1992

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Play/Drama

-

-

-

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2004

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Plays 3, Faber, London, 2004 (Samuel French, London, acting edition, 2006),

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Play/Drama

4

3

2g

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Charlie is that modern media phenomenon, an A list celebrity. Mobbed and adored by thousands, his face is everywhere, his name on everything from breakfast cereals to sports gear. He is truly the man who has it all. A beautiful wife, wonderful children, immense wealth and a magnificent home. Everyone is agreed that Charlie Conrad is undoubtedly the man to know and be associated with. What is far more difficult to pin down is what precisely it is that has made Charlie so famous. What has Charlie ever done? Indeed, has he ever done anything? And, in the distorting, mirrored world of celebrity hype, does anyone even care? (Stephen Joseph Theatre brochure copy, Spring 2004)

Unicorn Theatre For Children

1971

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Playbill One, Hutchinsons, London, 1969

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Childrens

Youth Audience

-

-

-

A one-act play written for schools to produce and published in 1969. It was televised in November 1987

Twenty quid now? Or a royalty? asked the editor. I chose the royalty. A shrewd decision as it turned out. Though it has meant generations of youngsters (including my own near thirty-year-olds) coming up to me to tell me they once played it at school."

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1970

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Samuel French, London, 1997

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Comedy

4

4

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looking at man's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person

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1980

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Musical Revue

-

3

2

mixed cast

music by Paul Todd

Ten songs charting impressions of the decades from 1890 to the 1980's

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2001

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Faber & Faber, London, 2002

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Musical Play

Musical

3

4

-

part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set and cast. Music: Keith Jarrett

A night of romance in her luxurious riverside apartment with the good looking stranger from next door. How can Joanna possibly go wrong ? Except the flat isn't hers, her name isn't Joanna it's Rosie and heaven knows what the good looking stranger from next door is really after. Nothing is what it seems and Rosie, instead of romance, suddenly finds herself in considerable danger.

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1960

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One Act

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-

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only ever presented in amateur production

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1999

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Faber & Faber, London, 1999

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Adaptation

7

3

-

Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky (Translation: Vera Liber)

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2001

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Faber & Faber, London, 2002

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Musical Play

Musical

3

4

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part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set and cast. Music: Keith Jarrett

When Lynette's business collapses and her husband disappears into the blue, she finds herself a single parent with a rapidly dwindling lifestyle. The future looks bleak. But she reckons without teenage daughter Sorrel's last ditch attempts to save them both. But will Sorrel succeed? Or will her desperate 'game plan' plunge them both into greater trouble. . ..?

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1999

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-

-

-

-

-

-

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1985

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-

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Revue

Show

1

1

mixed cast

music by Paul Todd

linked lunch time show

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1999

NTheatre Company, Hull School Of Performing Arts

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Childrens

Youth Audience

-

-

-

-

Mermaid Studio, London

1992

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-

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Play/Drama

-

-

-

-

Scarborough: Stephen Joseph Theatre, England, EUR >>>

1994

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Samuel French, London, 2006

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One Act

3

-

female voice

Haunting Julia was intended to be the first play by Ayckbourn for The McCarthy in the new Stephen Joseph Theatre, but delays in the project led it to be staged at the SJTITR in the round. It was later revived for The McCarthy and changed from a one-act to

Julia has been dead nearly 15 years, a brilliant musician with her whole life ahead of her. Why did she have to die? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or something altogether more sinister? Her father Joe is determined to discover the truth about his daughter's death. Obsessed, he will stop at nothing - even if it means trying to reach Julia herself.

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1987

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Faber & Faber, London, 1988

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Play/Drama

2

3

1g extras

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Futuristic problems of robots, riots and alienation

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1999

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Faber & Faber, London, 2000

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2 1 Acts

One Act

7

7

-

House and Garden are two plays designed to run simultaneously with the same cast. The cast moving between the House and the Garden. The plays can be seen in any order and, theoretically, one without the other. However, maximum enjoyment of the play comes

Up at the house, Teddy has dreams of a bright political future as the new local MP. The only problem barring his path is an urgent need to clean his private life before the Prime Minister's special envoy arrives. Unfortunately there can't be many of us with more complex private lives than Teddy's. How can he ever hope to create the right impression when practically nobody's speaking to him and if he can't understand a single word of the few that are? To cap it all, it just has to be the day of the garden fete. Down in the garden, frenzied preparations are underway for the annual village fete. Will the young maypole dancers pull it off? Is there someone sinister lurking in the bushes? Where on Earth are the rest of the Morris team? And just what does go on in the fortune teller's tent? Clouds are a gathering everywhere, in the sky and within personal lives. Old Warn, the gardener, watches all this with casual indifference. He's been through storms before. But, as he later discovers, never one quite like this.

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1969

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Evans Plays, London, 1971

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Farce

3

3

-

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Two menages project their infidelity onto a third, totally innocent and socially retarded couple.

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2006

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Play/Drama

3

2

-

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His subject here, as so often, is a marriage heading for the rocks. Neglected wife Jill is bored and frumpy; Mal, her bully ofa husband, adores his married daughter and is hated by his schoolboy son. Because he is the manager of a house furnishings store, by a typical Acykbourn device events at work in the bedding, kitchen and lounge departments can be intercut with crises at home in the lounge, kitchen and bedroom. Not that these domestic crises evolve into confrontations during the play's first half, except for Mal's outraged refusal to let young Sam act in a Shakespeare play. No one mentions Mal's not-so- secret affair, or the bruises on daughter Christine's arms, obviously her consequence of resisting her lout of a husband in bed. All this changes after Jill, settling for sleep at the end ofa dreadful day, mutters: "God help us". Because God presumably does and, next morning, she wakes up in Mal's body and he in hers.
Jeremy Kingston, The Times

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2005

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Play/Drama

3

4

-

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Returning to his familiar fictional borough of Pendon, Aycjbourn introduces us to the local writers' circle, a self-help group for the creatively stalled and artistically deluded, who meet once a month at the home of Arnold, a genial unmarried gent who dreams of creative endeavours more liberating than the translation of foreign instruction manuals.

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1983

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Revue

Show

3

3

-

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bittersweet human relations. "More experiments, this time with quite hefty narrative songs with a beginning. middle and end. Popular. We did it in the main house and then in the bar." (Alan Ayckbourn, 1989)

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1989

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Childrens

Youth Audience

1

1

-

-

Mrs Grimshaw is trying to give a very serious illustrated lecture on how Edwardians used to live. But her assistant Clyde has different ideas, and not only gets everything wrong, but ends up falling into the slide projector

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1982

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in "Vols 1 & 2" French, London, 1985

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Series of 8 scripts

-

1

1

doubling

Affairs In A Tent; Events On A Hotel Terrace; A Garden Fete; A Pageant; A Cricket Match; A Game Of Golf; A One Man Protest; Love In The Mist

Middle class foibles linked as each scene ends.

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1989

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Faber & Faber, London, 1991

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Childrens

Youth Audience

4

3

-

-

Childhood friend materialises but when you get what you want its not what you wanted.

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1983

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Samuel French, London, 1998

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Comedy Thriller

Thriller

3

3

-

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the murderer could be one of three people, the identity of whom can change every night; and the thrills are leavened throughout with tongue-in-cheek humour and slyly ironic comment.

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1975

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-

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Musical

10

5

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music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, rewritten 1996 as By Jeeves

Adaptation of P G Wodehouse stories.

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1978

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1979

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Comedy

4

4

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Brian's endless list of Anthea substitutes continues over a 12 year span.

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2002

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Faber & Faber, London, 2002

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play for all the family.

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5

4

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I mean, what do you do when you suddenly find out you've got a mother who's younger than you are? And a kid brother who turns out to be 20 years older than you? Tight. You panic. Yes, 11 year old Polly has quite a problem. Now the police are after her as well .Not to mention the social services. And a very, very big dog. . ..Heeeeeelllllp!

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1976

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1977

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Comedy

2

3

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Mans obsessions aggravate wives leading to climax of bizarre madness.

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2008

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Play/Drama

3

3

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part of of "The Things That Go Bump"

the ghosts that lurk in the dark corners of all our minds. Will recently widowed Beth make it through her first Christmas alone? Even the cat has walked out. The family rally round but her alcoholic sister-in-law, accident prone son and his truculent girlfriend make it hard for her to maintain her welcoming smile. Add in a lovesick vicar and a further unexpected and totally uninvited guest and Beth is in for a Christmas she will never forget.

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1973

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1975

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Comedy

3

3

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The Norman Conquests, aka Make Yourself At Home

takes place in the living room

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1959

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Farce

3

2

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as Roland Allen

Based on Barber of Seville; father wants to marry his daughter to wealth - true love triumphs

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1981

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Revue

Show

6

3

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music by Paul Todd

bittersweet human relations

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1988

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Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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Black Comedy

Comedy

6

4

1g extras

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Ex robber and his timid clerk victim are reunited for TV chat show.

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1981

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Samuel French, London, 1989

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Revue

Show

1

3

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music by Paul Todd. Me, Myself & I was staged as three connected, but seperate lunchtime shows in Scarborough and as one show in London

Ayckbourn has always been haunted by the nuclear family's ability to deprive women of emotional, intellectual and even physical fulfilment. Here he wittily embodies that idea by showing 36-year-old Mary Yately first dreaming that she is to be the local paper's mum of the year" and then contrasting that with domestic reality. His deftest touch is to divide Mary into three, so that her frustrated diurnal self is shadowed, and often mocked, by her cool, worldly superego and her ragingly sensual id - an idea that Ayckbourn took even further in 1985 in the surreal, hallucinatory Woman in Mind." The Guardian

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1978

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short late night revue

One Act

2

2

mixed cast

music by Paul Todd (cassette TSJITR 001, Stephen Joseph Theatre)

Worries at a variety of facets of the relationship between sexes.

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1986

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Revue

Show

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-

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music by Paul Todd

late night cabaret on theme of not telling the truth

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2004

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Play/Drama

3

4

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Tammy is a problem; bottom of her class, constantly in trouble, she's the despair of her teachers and of her wealthy, successful parents. Why can't she be more like her brilliant older brother Glenn? Where did it all go wrong? What on earth will become of her? Fifteen years old and having reached the lowest point in her entire life, even Tammy is beginning to wonder. Then a chance meeting with a stranger appears to change everything. A woman offers Tammy the chance to go back just twenty-four hours to try to put things right. Back to this time yesterday. But can Tammy really alter things? Is it even possible? Can she ever hope to change her life in such a way? And why does the mysterious woman seem curiously familiar? (Copy from Stephen Joseph Theatre Winter Brochure 2004)

Horsham

1973

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Samuel French, London, 1977

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Comedy

1

2

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in Mixed Blessings

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1988

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Faber & Faber, London, 1989

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Childrens

Youth Audience

6

2

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Mr Accousticus causes strange things to happen to Suzy and her puppy.

Stoke on Trent

1963

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Samuel French, London, 1992

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Comedy

5

2

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A mute piano player becomes entangled in the life of the Lord of the Manor.

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1994

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Play/Drama

4

1

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2003

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Faber & Faber, London, 2003

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Play/Drama

3

4

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Luke and his mother, Avril, eke out their existence tending to their run down, isolated farm in a remote part of England. They both miss Luke's sister June so much and would give anything in the world to have her back with them, alive and well again. But life can be harsh and these days we can rarely hope for miracles. Until one day, the miracle happens. Out of the night sky drops a brand new, full grown, large-as-life sister - the answer to all their prayers. Or is she? For who exactly is Sadie and where did she come from? Is she all she appears to be? And if so, why are so many mysterious people determined to find her? An exciting, funny, tender tale of a family whose lives are changed forever by the strangest of strangers. (Stephen Joseph Theatre brochure winter 2003)

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1991

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Samuel French, London, 1995

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Childrens

Youth Audience

8

5

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Do you have a double? They say everybody does - somewhere. Our speaker today, Percy Patton, appears to have not just a double (Peter Patchett), but a treble (Paul Peel)! All with their Very Own Story to tell. Only, alas, when Peter gets into Paul's tale, and Paul appears in Percy's, and Percy gets into Peter's, the whole thing tends to get distinctly perplexing.

New Victoria, North Staffs

1992

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Musical Review

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7

5

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written by Alan Ayckbourn, Oliver Beamish, Ken Campbell, Bob Eaton, Sayan Kent, John Kirkpatrick, Byrony Lavery, Jenny Lecoat, Chris Martin, Greg Palmer, Carole Ruggier, Peter Whelan and Johnson Willis

with the programme you get a party pack of paper hats and streamers and the skits continue

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2003

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Faber & Faber, London, 2003

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Musical

12

4

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written By Alan Ayckbourn and Dennis King

An epic musical tale of accidental heroism. The chorus of gods sets out to relate the tale of the Great Ulmar, legendary warrior and champion of Sollistis. But their narrative suffers a major technical hitch when Orvin, Ulmar's hopeless squire, oversleeps on the eve of battle. What follows proves a challenge even to such seasoned story tellers as the gods themselves as they vainly attempt to re-write history with only the help of Orvin, the unlikeliest, most reluctant of last minute replacement champions. (Copy from the Stephen Joseph Theatre brochure summer 2004)

The McCarthy, Stephen Joseph Theatre

2002

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Childrens 1 Act

Youth Audience

1

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puppets

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A new adaptation of the famed fairy tale, aimed at children under the age of 8.

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2004

Stephen Joseph Theatre Company

Plays 3, Faber & Faber, London, 2004

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Play/Drama

3

3

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My heart used to leap about and sing. It really did. At the thought of seeing you after two - there months. It did what they say it does. It literally leapt. But coming here to meet you today, it sort of sank. I'm sorry. It did. . . Six people, six separate lives - yet all strangely linked by circumstance. Does Nicola still love Dan? Can Stewart be on the verge of an office romance? Will Imogen ever find true love? Does Ambrose have a secret life? And what on earth is Charlotte up to? This latest play by Alan Ayckbourn is a tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood. (Stephen Joseph Theatre publicity, 2004) "A tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood. . ." (Alan Ayckbourn)

Library Theatre, Scarborough

1965

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Evans Plays, London, 1968

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Comedy

2

2

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aka Meet My Father

Amorous ding-dongs

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1989

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Faber & Faber, London, 1991

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Black Comedy

Comedy

12

11

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Two people meet on London's Albert Bridge at midnight, both prepared to jump off. Henry Bell has just been ousted from his job by a thrusting corporate executive; Karen Knightly has lost her farmer-lover to his scheming rustic wife. They decide that revenge is sweeter than suicide, but it is Karen who declares that she will see to Henry's oppressor if he will take care of hers.

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2001

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Faber & Faber, London
2004 Samuel French, London (acting edition) - click here to order >>>, 2002

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Musical Play

Musical

3

4

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part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set and cast. Music: Keith Jarrett

In their luxurious apartment, Justin Lazenby and Julie-Ann Jobson plan an introductory supper for their respective parents. Will the Jobson's, Derek and Dee, meet with the approval of Justin's mother, Arabella - plus whoever it is she plans to bring with her? It's an important occasion and everything needs to be just right. Things seem to be planned down to the last detail. But no one has allowed for the arrival of the desperate Paige Petite who literally drops in from the upstairs flat - hotly pursued by the menacing Micky Rale. . .. . .

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1973

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1975

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Comedy

3

3

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The Norman Conquests

The Norman Conquests consists of three inter-connected plays set in the garden, living-room and dining room of a house over one weekend. The plays are: Table Manners (play 13); Living Together (play 14); Round and Round the Garden (play 15). Original titles: Fancy Meeting You (Table Manners) Make Yourself At Home (Living Together) TABLE MANNERS: The events of one weekend as seen from the dining room. In which Reg finds food rather scarce despite having it thrown at him by Sarah - Sarah is scandalised by Annie - Annie is disappointed by men in general and Tom in particular - Tom knocks down Norman - Norman's romantic proposals are ruined thanks to Ruth - Ruth loses her patience, her temper and her glasses - and in which everyone has trouble deciding where to sit - LIVING TOGETHER The events of one weekend as seen from the Sitting Room. In which Reg is driven mad by Tom - Tom tells Annie a thing or two - Annie nearly comes to blows with Sarah -Sarah sees a different side of Norman -Norman sorts things out with Ruth -Ruth discovers the charms of a fireside rug - and in which nobody enjoys playing board games - ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN The events of one weekend as seen from the Garden. In which Ruth thoroughly confuses Tom - Tom succeeds in asking Annie - Annie gets a glimpse of Norman's pyjamas - Norman tells Sarah stories by moonlight - Sarah disapproves of Reg's outdoor sports -and in which everyone gets to roll in the grass - (Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round brochure copy, summer 1993)

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1980

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Samuel French, London, 1982

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Black Comedy

Comedy

5

4

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On Boxing Day the previous nights fracas is passed off as a drunken romp. But was it?

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1980

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Musical Revue

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3

2

mixed cast

music by Paul Todd

Ten songs about aspects of love.

BBC 2

1974

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1977

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TV Play

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4

2

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The barman is professionally impervious to revelations at the companies fancy dress dance

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1984

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Revue

Show

4

3

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music by Paul Todd

a hooded look at the virtues

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1978

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1981

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Comedy

7

4

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Sisterly feelings has two acts with two scenes each. There are two alternative scenes for Act I, scene II and Act II, scene I. The decision for which scene is used in Act I is decided by the flip of a coin. The decision for which scene is used in Act II i

Sisterly choices determined either deliberately or at random