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ROY SMILES |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Roy Smiles is a playwright from West London. His plays include: SCHMUCKS, YING TONG, STAND UP, YEAR OF THE RAT and BOMBING PEOPLE. His plays have been staged in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, Israel, the UK and the United States. He had a writing attachment at the National Theatre In 2000. YING TONG reached the West End (Ambassadors Theatre) in 2005. He has won two Guinness Fringe Theatre Awards. Two of his plays are published by Oberon books: YING TONG and YEAR OF THE RAT. Radio Four has broadcast YING TONG and also his Beyond The Fringe piece; GOOD EVENING.
Plays by Roy Smiles
Backstage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Court Theatre, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, NZ | 30 Oct 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107228 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | It is a screwball farce; a six hander set backstage in a New York theatre in 1939. A dresser has to deal with the trials and tribulations of working for an egomaniac showbiz family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bombing People | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Aug 2000 | |||||
Company: | Iris Hills Production and B29 Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44126 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Catch 22 style black comedy about the Enola Gay and the dropping of the atom bomb. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boys of Summer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32493 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Comedy-drama set in an Aids ward | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Burlesque | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 22 May 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121099 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Adam Megiddo and Roy Smiles | |||||
Synopsis: | America. 1952. The war in Korea grinds on as McCarthy s anti-Communist witch-hunts reach their peak. Meanwhile, in a run-down Burlesque Theater, popular comedian Johnny Reno is trying to keep a low profile. Blacklisted for not co-operating with the authorities, Johnny is rapidly running out of options. Until a chance to clear his name at once promises to save him and threatens to tear his world apart. When a country goes insane - someone has to make a stand. A tale of sex, politics, persecution and the birth of the culture of terror. Burlesque fizzes along with all the energy and pizazz of showbiz, bursting with quickfire gags and snappy songs. Its fast, funny, sexy and ultimately, heart-breaking. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Court Jester, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32494 | |||
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Genre: | Medieval comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Medieval comedy based on the poll tax riots of the 14th century | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Danny Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44127 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The story of an Irish Jesus; satire on Irish sectarianism | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dinner with the Borgias | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32495 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Pythonesque Machiavellian romp | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Exiles, The (or Highgate Shuffle) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44128 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Black comedy set during an Irish wake in Highgate | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Get It While You Can, A Conversation With Janis Joplin | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Nov 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32496 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Monologue on the life and times of the rock singer: Janis Joplin | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good Evening | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre In The Bay, South Africa | - - - | ||||
Company: | Theatre In The Bay, South Africa | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99174 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The story of the BEYOND THE FRINGE team (Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller & Dudley Moore), the comic troupe who changed the face of British comedy forever, told in the revue style of the original production. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ho-Ho Club | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 26 Sep 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #121100 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Raucous, funny, and sad, the Ho-Ho Club is set both on stage and backstage at a stand-up comedy club in South London. During the course of a wild eventful Saturday night, five comedians - a television star, a comic desperately trying to re-invent himself, his ex partner now on the slide, the obnoxious compere/club owner and the fragile open-spot - come to terms with their lives and talents. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Idiot's Waltz | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32497 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A satire on the return of capital punishment | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kurt and Sid | ||
| 1st Produced: | The North Wall, Oxford, Oxfordshire | 10 Jul 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Trafalgar | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029420 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99139 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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| In 1994 Kurt Cobain, lead singer and songwriter with Nirvana, worn down by heroin addiction and overwhelmed by the extremity of his success, decides to end his life. Alone in the attic extension of his Seattle mansion he faces his last moments on earth. He is only 27 years old. Into this scenario wanders Sid Vicious, the long dead English punk rocker. . .in the course of the next 75 minutes Kurt and Sid argue the futility of rock and roll self-destruction, the sordid glamour of addiction and the terrible price of fame. As Sid tries to prevent Kurt's gristly end and give Cobain something he has never really known: peace. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Pilgrim, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ >>> | 28 Sep 2010 | ||||
Company: | Pilgrim productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119607 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the Ambassador's hotel on the night of the assassination of Senator Robert ('Bobby') Kennedy three journalists gather to interview the man tipped to become the Democratic candidate for the 1968 presidential race: Tom Quinn, a disillusioned Irish-American, James Gordon, a black activist and Nancy Buckman, an anti-war liberal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Empires | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103916 | |||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9285/93 | |||||
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Lunatic's Tango | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Apr 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32498 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Frantic comedy about a megalomaniac, psychotic playwright staging his last play on the fringe | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Maxwell The Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82886 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | never staged (being banned by the Attorney General three days before the opening) | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Promised Land,The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Event | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32499 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Comedy drama set on V.E. night 1945 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pythonesque | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre-On-The-Bay In South Africa | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Pieter Torien Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029413 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91610 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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| A surreal comedy telling the story of the Monty Python team. For a cast of four (Gilliam & Idle, Jones & Palin doubling up). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roberto Calvi Is Alive and Well | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32500 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Satire on masonry in the British police-force | |||||
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Schmucks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32501 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Groucho Marx meets Lenny Bruce in a diner in Greenwich Village during the great New York blackout of 1965 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sick Dictators | ||
| 1st Produced: | 31 Jul 2001 | |||||
Company: | Cahoots Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32502 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Political Dario Fo style comedy set during General Pinochet of Chile's visit to a London hospital to have an in-growing toe-nail removed | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stand-Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Mar 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32503 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | aka The Ho Ho Club (King's Head Theatre, London, EUR (2006) >>> | |||||
Synopsis: | Comedy-drama set backstage in a stand up comedy club about the life comedians | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Top of the Town | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32504 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A comic tribute to the songs of Rodgers & Hart | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Year Of The Rat | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Mar 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840028447 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82885 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| 1948: George Orwell is attempting to finish his final novel -Nineteen Eighty Four - before ill-health forces him off the solated Scottish island he has made his home. Holed up with a shotgun and literary-circle bombshell Sonia Brownell for company he's desperately hoping for a last chance at happiness. But George is no womaniser and is sure to make a hash of things particularly after his childhood friend and notorious lecher Cyril Connolly turns up. Will he seduce Sonia or will Cyril scupper his plans? Can he survive his friends, both real and imaginary, and finish his masterpiece before death comes knocking? | |||||
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Ying Tong | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Oct 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840025255 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41284 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | it tackles Spike's clinical depression in Goon Show style. Set in a psychiatric ward and a BBC studio, it shows a bedbound Spike devoured by his comic creations and his madcap colleagues. Doors fly open to reveal a singing Secombe or a naked Sellers deman | |||||
| Set in a psychiatric ward and a radio theatre Smiles's play shows a clinically depressed Spike in 1960 haunted by his own creation and exhorted by Sellers and Secombe to produce one more series. In the second half the play surreally expands to offer us a pastiche Goon Show called Journey To The Centre of Milligan's Brain. Eccles, Bloodnok, Grytpype-Thynne and the rest are all wheeled out in an attempt to rescue Milligan's marbles which turn out to be as precious as those of Elgin. - Michael Billington, The Guardian. | |||||
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