WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME   (1912 - 1992)


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Plays by William Douglas Home

WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
After The Ball Is Over
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1986
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
This delightful comedy was seen at the Old Vic in 1985 starring Patrick Cargill and Anthony Quayle. The annual Drayton Castle Hunt Ball is held on the very night that the Bill outlawing fox hunting passes through the House of Lords. This inauspicious start to the evening only serves to herald further confusion and disaster! 'He [William Douglas Home] loves his characters, knows their world intimately and he sends you away with a warm regard for their eccentricities.' Spectator
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Ambassador Extraordinary
1st Produced:
London
1948
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
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Female
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Notes:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
At The End Of The Day
1st Produced:
Guildford, Surrey
1973
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Aunt Edwina
1st Produced:
Eastbourne, Sussex
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1960
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Colonel Edward Ryan accidently takes some horse pills a becomes a woman - Aunt Edwina. To balance things his wife takes the pills so she can become a man
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Bad Samaritan, The
1st Produced:
Bromley, Kent
1952
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1954
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Genre:
3 Acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in the Deanery of an English Cathedral town
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Bad Soldier Smith, The
1st Produced:
London
1961
Company:
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1st Published:
Evans, London
1962
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Genre:
Second World War Drama
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Parts:
Male
11
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Betzi
1st Produced:
Salisbury
1965
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1977
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Betsy
Synopsis:
Period 1815, set in St Helena tells of Napoleon's arrival and his relationship with a young girl
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Bishop And The Actress, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1969
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
televised 1968
Synopsis:
Jilted actress, about to commit suicide is visited by lover's father, a worldly compassionate bishop.
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Caro William
1st Produced:
London
1952
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Chiltern Hundreds, The
1st Produced:
London
1947
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1949
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Yes, M'Lord (New York, 1949)
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Christmas Truce
1st Produced:
London
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1990
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
15
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
No Man's Land on the Western Front during WW1 as troops declare a spontaneous truce to play football
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Cigarette Girl, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1962
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
11
Female
8
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Consulting Room, The
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Dame Of Sark, The
1st Produced:
Oxford
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1976
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Follows the course of events during the German occupation of Sark during WW"
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
David And Jonathan
1st Produced:
Farnham, Surrey
1984
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka And As For Jonathan, and, Marriage Rites
Synopsis:
Friendship from the Bible
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Douglas Cause, The
1st Produced:
Nottingham
1971
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
20
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Drawing Room Tragedy, The
1st Produced:
Salisbury
1963
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Editor Regrets, The
1st Produced:
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1979
Company:
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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London
1979
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Four Hearts Doubled
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Friend Indeed, A
1st Produced:
1965
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1966
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
About mixed parentage and the ensuing complications when their respective offspring fall in love
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Golf Umbrella, The
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London
1984
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Robert, a failing playwright, is inspired to write his next play on the theme on adultery. Having read the first draft, his wife Susan claims his seduction scene lacks realism and Robert admits that he has had no experience whatsoever with extra-marital affairs. Susan decides to provide him with the experience he needs for his research, and arranges a romantic liaison for him with an old flame, Sheila. Susan makes herself scarce while Robert sets to wooing Sheila, who unfortunately realises all too soon that she is being framed and proceeds to foil his plans. Deflated, Robert phones Susan at her mothers to let her know that their plan has backfired - however Susan is elsewhere, and we are left wondering whether she is carrying out a seduction scenario of her own!
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Great Possessions
1st Produced:
London
1937
Company:
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1st Published:
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Female
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Grouse Moor Image, The
1st Produced:
Plymouth
1968
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Her Mother Came Too
1st Produced:
Leatherhead, Surrey
1982
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
In The Red
1st Produced:
Boston, Lincolnshire
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1978
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka In the Red
Synopsis:
playwright attempts to blackmail bank manager in effort to reduce debt, all tables are ironically turned
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Iron Duchess, The
1st Produced:
Brighton
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans, London
1958
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Genre:
Comedy Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Jockey Club Stakes, The
1st Produced:
Grand Theatre, Leeds
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1971
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
10
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Cover up by the Jockey Club after compulsive betting scandal involving a steward's wife.
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Kingfisher, The
1st Produced:
Brighton
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1981
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
best selling novelist decides to marry one of the many women in his life to the discomfort of his butler of fifty years
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Lloyd George Knew My Father
1st Produced:
Boston, Lincolnshire
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Of The Year Vol.42", Elek, London
1972
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Lady Boothroyd of the By-Pass
Synopsis:
planning authorities are intending to drive a road through a stately old lady's grounds, the old general rides to the rescue
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Lord's Lieutenant, The
1st Produced:
Farnham, Surrey
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1978
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
7
Parts Other:
choirboys
Notes:
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Synopsis:
Peer's daughter holds religious debate with pop star idol in church, he finds religion after she bears his child and is later killed in a car crash
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Manor Of Northstead, The
1st Produced:
London
1954
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1956
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Master Of Arts
1st Produced:
Brighton
1949
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1950
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Female
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Now Barabbas . . .
1st Produced:
Boltons Theatre, Kensington
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
Longman, London
1947
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
17
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
There are two new arrivals at a London prison. Roberts and Richards. Roberts had got drunk and helped himself to the contents of the bar's till. Richards' crime is not specified but he was a chorus boy and the other prisoners call him "Polly" and he forms an attachment to IRA prisonner O'Brien. Medworth, an older prisonner who is inside for inappropiate dealings with his pupils at a public school, informs the Governor of the attachment and Richards is moved to another prison. In the condemned cell Tufnell waits to hear if his plea for clemancy is to be granted. A basically decent sort who snapped when a policeman insulted his girlfriend and shot him.
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Passing By
1st Produced:
London
1940
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Perch, The
1st Produced:
Pitlochry
1977
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
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Female
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WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME
Portraits
1st Produced: