R F DELDERFIELD (1912 - 1971)
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by R F Delderfield
Absent Lover |
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And Then There Were None |
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| 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 | |||||
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Bride Wore An Opal Ring |
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| 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 | |||||
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Flashpoint |
| 1st Produced: | Amateur | 1958 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1958 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | yet you a daughter of a marmalade king, who married a feudal bully, accuse me of side-stepping reality" | |||||
Glad Tidings |
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| 1st Published: | Rylee Ltd, nd | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Golden Rain |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Roger a clergyman has been appointed rector to a village in a rural area. He moves into the rectory with his wife Cathy. It is an old Georgian building and badly needs a new kitchen and heating system. On Roger's salary they cannot afford to pay for renovations and an approach to the archdeacon does not get them any money. Roger is very against current lax morals and is especially against the football pools - which he condemns regularly from his pulpit. In an effort to raise money Cathy takes a half share in a football pool with the cleaning lady. The dilemma comes when they win | |||||
Guinea-Pigs |
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| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1954 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy for Women | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Home Is The Hunted |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1954 | ||||
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| 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: | Cockney Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | about a convict mistakedly believing his home will be a peaceful retreat whilst he is on the run from prison | |||||
Made To Measure |
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| 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 | |||||
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Mayerling Affair, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1958 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Period Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | On a January morning the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and Mary Vetsera were found in the hunting lodge at Maylerling. They had committed suicide there illicit love affair had become known and things had been made worse when a letter the Prince had sent to the Pope requesting a divorce so that he could marry Mary was sent by the Pope to Rudolph's father the Emperor. | |||||
Miaouw! Miaouw! |
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| 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 | |||||
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My Dearest Angel |
| 1st Produced: | Guildford | 1968 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
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Napoleon In Love |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland | 1960 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
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Old Lady of Cheadle |
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| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1952 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | events around the 1745 Stuart uprising | |||||
Once Aboard The Lugger |
| 1st Produced: | Pavilion Theatre, ExmouTheatre, Devon | 1962 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1962 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | two thousand four hundred gold pieces salvaged from the wreck, but who owns them? | |||||
Orchard Walls |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN | - | |||
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| Synopsis: | The new principal at the Collegiate School for Girls has a more relaxed attitude to things than her predecessor and her deputy. One of the things that has been allowed is some social mixing with the nearby boys grammar school. The deputy finds a love letter written by one of the girls, Shirley to one of the boys Mike. Mike's father is a garage owner. When Shirley's mother is told she immediately makes arrangements for Shirley to be sent to an aunt in Canada. The youngsters run away but are brought back by Mike's father. Shirley tries to kill herself. | |||||
Prophet In Jeopardy |
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| 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 | |||||
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Queen Came By |
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| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1949 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Rounderlay Tradition |
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| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1954 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | All-Women Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Sailors Beware |
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| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1950 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Elizabethan Improbability in 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | As the Spanish Armada approaches wives of the officers meet Queen Elizabeth I | |||||
Smoke Across The valley |
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| 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 | |||||
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Spark In Judea |
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| 1st Published: | Kenyon-Deane, 1953 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Testimonial, The |
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| 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 | |||||
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This Happy Brood |
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| 1st Published: | Evans Bros, London, 1956 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Waggonload O'Monkeys |
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| 1st Published: | Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1952 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act Farcical Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Further Adventures of Porter and Taffy | |||||
Where There's A Will. . . |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 |
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| Synopsis: | When old farmer Brewer dies no one can find his will so it looks like his Cockney cousins will inherit it. They know nothing of farming and would like to make a quick profit by selling it. | |||||
Wild Milk |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1962 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Worm's Eye View |
| 1st Produced: | London | pre 1956 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | 8 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | 1942 - three airman are billeted with the Bounty family. The irksome rules that have been imposed on them and the fact that the heating has been turned off and the piano locked leads them to rebel. | |||||