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Paul Doust

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Plays by Paul Doust

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Amphibious Spangulatos ,Or, Newt on Your Nellie!

Cold Comfort Farm

If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake

Lady Bracknell's Confinement Or, The Bunburyist

Sticky Wickets

Paul Doust Amphibious Spangulatos ,Or, Newt on Your Nellie!

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Cherry Hellingsworth is fulfilling her Community Service stint by working at a Village Hall as the Functions Manager. But she's not terribly good at it. On one evening she manages to to hire out the hall to the Village Drama Society, the Cricket team, a Singing Telegram and a Country and Western group called the Southern Fried Chickens. A frenzied, door-slamming farce, suitable for adults or youth groups.

First Produced

1993 Greenwich, London

First Published

1995 French, London

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Farce

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doubling possible

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Paul Doust Cold Comfort Farm

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eccentric relatives at Cold Comfort Farm do not appreciate tidy relative descending on them

First Produced

1991 Watermill Theatre, Newbury, UK >>>

First Published

1993 French, London

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Adapatation/translation

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extras

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novel by Stella Gibbons

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Paul Doust If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake

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1988 Old Red Lion Theatre, London >>>

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Paul Doust Lady Bracknell's Confinement Or, The Bunburyist

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We hear off stage the final moments of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" and then Lady Bracknell enters and tells the story of her life. She or rather he was born to poor but politically radical parents in the East End. When both parents die the young William finds employment at a theatre as dresser and as someone to help with line learning to the star actress Miss Betty Bridley. An unfortunate accident means that Miss Bridley is unable to perform and William is persuaded to take her role - as he knows all the words. After a performance a Gerald Fairfax - the future Lord Bracknell - pays court not knowing that she really is a man. The thought of a title proves to be too much and so Mr Fairfax's proposal is accepted. And then things start to get complicated -

First Produced

1991 BAC, London >>>

First Published

1994 French, London

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Monologue

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one male or one female; Voices only: 3 males 2 females

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Paul Doust Sticky Wickets

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1994 Watermill Theatre, Newbury, UK >>>

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