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Terry Harper
Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves
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Ali Baba, a penniless inventor, and his grand-daughter Katrina, decide to find the secret cave of Abdul Khan, leader of The Forty Thieves, then claim the twenty thousand dinars reward from the Caliph. They can't finance the expedition, so Bessie Baba (the dame), Ali's rich sister-in-law, and her son Mustapha, agree to help, especially as Mustpaha is in love with Katrina. They find the secret cave, and finally after many comic mishaps, capture Abdul Khan. What is to be 'the scourge of the desert's' fate? Could it perhaps be even worse than death?
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Panto
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Terry Harper
Beauty And The Beast
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Princess Beauty is betrothed to Prince Peter. The beast abducts Peter, and Lucinda, Beauty's lady-in-waiting. The Beast secretly in love with Beauty but knows this will be unrequited. He kidnaps Beauty and takes her to his castle in the Entreated Forest. Dame Dilemma, Douglas, Baron Nausea, King and Queen, Fairy Goodenough and an Old Crone mount a rescue mission. Most of them are captured. After many mishaps, fun and games, they are freed from the castle by Prince Conrad of Cordovia who has a secret past. And is the Beast all he is reputed to be? Happy endings abound in this traditional pantomime.
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Terry Harper
Between The Lines
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Synopsis:
Why does William have to become Alan? Why does Alan have to become William? Why does the Brigadier think William is the gardener? Why does William who is engaged to Penelope suddenly become engaged to Pearl? Why is Gloria, Alan's wife, keen to make Justin, a superstar from Europe, believe that she isn't married? Why does the Brigadier refer to Mavis as 'Sugar-Plum'? Why does Mavis refer to the Brigadier as 'Bonzo'? Who is Mr Worth, and why does he have legal papers to serve on William or the Brigadier? A fast paced farce set in the swinging sixties.
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Drama
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6
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Terry Harper
Christmas Isnt For Families
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Have you ever experienced the feeling that this Christmas you'd like to get away on your own? That this Christmas the family - which for so many years you have looked after for the festive season - could look after itself, and you could do your own thing? Come and join the Collingwood family for Christmas and see what happens as Charles and Felicity Collingwood attempt to deal with his mother, her aunt, his uncle home from Australia and their own son and heavily-pregnant daughter-in-law.
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Terry Harper
Rehearsal For Murder
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An amateur dramatic society is rehearsing a new play and are only ten days away from opening night when the props girl is murdered. We know who fired the gun, but is he the killer or an unfortunate victim of circumstances? Inspector Lorna Martin and Sergeant Frank Curtis investigate, and gradually the cast members are revealed in their true characters. The killer is trapped into a confession, but is it a true confession? Is it the end... or...?
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Terry Harper
Requiem For Denys
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Synopsis:
Denys Anderson is Educationally Subnormal. After his mother - with whom he had lived all his life - dies, his brother Jim and sister-in-law Sally rake him to live with them, following a promise Sally had made to Deny's mother that Deny's would always have a home with them. The play follows the ups and downs of a family caring for a less fortunate of that family and, though it seems improbable at the beginning, they realise after Deny's death, that they have gained more from him than he has received from them. Throughout the play, which chronicles the trauma, sadness and temporary frustrations of the characters there is a rich vein of humour, mostly stemming from Denys himself. The play is intended as a tribute to the thousands of ordinary people who daily care for others and, through their selfish attitude, become extraordinary, although they would never admit it.
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Terry Harper
Take My Husbands Please!
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Synopsis:
The madcap morning of India Kershaw, best selling novelist, who on her return from holiday, taken to aid recovery from her second divorce, is confronted in turn by both her ex-husbands, their respective wives (one of whom tries to strangle India). Then her hypochondriac literary agent, Celeste Conway arrives to say she has fallen madly in love. It turns out to be with one of the ex-husbands, which further complicates life. An eccentric screen writer who is adapting one of India's novels appears which accentuates the general mayhem into which the morning is deteriorating. How India, with the help of her Aunt Hannah, survives intact until lunchtime makes for a fast paced farcical comedy.
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Comedy
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Terry Harper
Widower's Way
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Synopsis:
The play follows the adjustments required by Peter Mason after having become a widower approximately a year previous. Throughout the play we experience with him, his thoughts, actions and reactions, concerning his son and daughter-in-law, his daughter and her partner, his mother and various friends and acquaintances. Rosie, his dead wife, features prominently in the play, observing, encouraging and criticising Peter's many changes of mood. Although the subject of bereavement is in no way funny, there are many scenes in the play that are amusing. The author hopes that audiences will see it as a "heart-warming journey into hope".
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Drama
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5
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10
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