WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME (1912 - 1992)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by William Douglas Home
After The Ball Is Over |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
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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 | ||||
Ambassador Extraordinary |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||
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At The End Of The Day |
| 1st Produced: | Guildford, Surrey | 1973 | ||
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Aunt Edwina |
| 1st Produced: | Eastbourne, Sussex | 1959 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1960 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
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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 | ||||
Bad Samaritan, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bromley, Kent | 1952 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1954 | ||
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| Genre: | 3 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Set in the Deanery of an English Cathedral town | ||||
Bad Soldier Smith, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1961 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | Second World War Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
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Betzi |
| 1st Produced: | Salisbury | 1965 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 |
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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 | ||||
Bishop And The Actress, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: televised 1968 | ||||
Synopsis: Jilted actress, about to commit suicide is visited by lover's father, a worldly compassionate bishop. | ||||
Caro William |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1952 | ||
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Chiltern Hundreds, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1947 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1949 | ||
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Notes: aka Yes, M'Lord (New York, 1949) | ||||
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Christmas Truce |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: No Man's Land on the Western Front during WW1 as troops declare a spontaneous truce to play football | ||||
Cigarette Girl, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 8 |
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Consulting Room, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
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Dame Of Sark, The |
| 1st Produced: | Oxford | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1976 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Follows the course of events during the German occupation of Sark during WW" | ||||
David And Jonathan |
| 1st Produced: | Farnham, Surrey | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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Notes: aka And As For Jonathan, and, Marriage Rites | ||||
Synopsis: Friendship from the Bible | ||||
Douglas Cause, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 7 |
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Drawing Room Tragedy, The |
| 1st Produced: | Salisbury | 1963 | ||
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Editor Regrets, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1979 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Evans Bros, London | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
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Four Hearts Doubled |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
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Friend Indeed, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1965 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: About mixed parentage and the ensuing complications when their respective offspring fall in love | ||||
Golf Umbrella, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||
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| 1st Published: | English Theatre Guild, London | 1984 | ||
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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! | ||||
Great Possessions |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1937 | ||
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Grouse Moor Image, The |
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth | 1968 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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Her Mother Came Too |
| 1st Produced: | Leatherhead, Surrey | 1982 | ||
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In The Red |
| 1st Produced: | Boston, Lincolnshire | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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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 | ||||
Iron Duchess, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1957 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Evans, London | 1958 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
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Jockey Club Stakes, The |
| 1st Produced: | Grand Theatre, Leeds | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Cover up by the Jockey Club after compulsive betting scandal involving a steward's wife. | ||||
Kingfisher, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1981 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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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 | ||||
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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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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 | ||||
Lord's Lieutenant, The |
| 1st Produced: | Farnham, Surrey | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | choirboys | |||
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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 | ||||
Manor Of Northstead, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1954 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1956 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Master Of Arts |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1949 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1950 | ||
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Now Barabbas . . . |
| 1st Produced: | Boltons Theatre, Kensington | 1947 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Longman, London | 1947 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 3 |
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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. | ||||
Passing By |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1940 | ||
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Perch, The |
| 1st Produced: | Pitlochry | 1977 | ||
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Portraits |
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