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Sonning Eye: The Mill at Sonning Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2003

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Synopsis: The plot again concerns Myrtle Banbury, the queen of the romantic novel, who is in fact a divorced man, living with his daughter and his father, faced with the problem of explaining the whereabouts of Myrtle as an investigative journalist cum medium arrives to interview the famous author. Sheila Ballantine brings a nice touch of Louella Parsons' persona to the role. With microphone, ear pieces and speakers, the family sets up a three-way telephone call from Aunt Myrtle, who is supposedly somewhere up the Amazon. When the novelist's former wife arrives, having never met her ex-husband's talented Aunt Myrtle - who decides to put in an appearance - the ensuing scene between the two is beautifully played by Karen Ascoe and Williams. Gareth Thomas is the sympathetic father and Amy Williams - Williams' real daughter - proves she has inherited the family talent.

Sonning Eye: The Mill at Sonning Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2007

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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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Thriller

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Synopsis: created a spooky, suspenseful drama that shamelessly plunders Hitchcock, the Hollywood thriller, TV detective shows and the classic whodunnit. The result is a serpentine plot stuffed with surprises and occasionally, despite gleefully over-the-top performances, genuine chills. The Agatha Christie-style setting is a remote Cornish country house, where Max and Ashley Hennessy, twin brothers, grew up together. Since the pair were in a suspicious climbing accident that resulted in Ashley's confinement to a wheelchair and a subsequent ugly court case, legal and medical strictures have kept them apart. Now it's their birthday, and a neurotic Ashley is on his way home from rehab in the company of the starchy, vaguely sinister Nurse Malahide. He is convinced that Max is out to get him- and, to judge by the way in which his brother is creeping around the house, he is not wrong. With Ashley a paranoid wreck and Max smilingly sadistic, which of them is sane, and which insane? And, when they look so alike that even their devoted but dotty Aunt Lala can't tell them apart, how will Detective Inspector Fergus ever be able to catch the killer? Williams sprinkles his play with erudite references to twins, from Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll to the Bible and Romulus and Remus. Max spends too much time talking to himself- unless, of course, that really is the first sign of madness -and the characterisation doesn't pretend to offer depth or complexity. But Williams's speculations about the fraught bond between identical siblings, cod-psychology though they are, have a certain dramatic potency.

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Synopsis: When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in mysterious circumstances, his last remaining relative, Sir Henry Baskerville, travels home from America to claim his inheritance - Baskerville Hall, which lies on the edges of the wild moors of Devon. The local legends say that there is a curse on the Baskervilles, caused by Sir Hugo Baskerville's actions many years earlier. The curse has taken the form of a gigantic, ferocious hound, which stalks Dartmoor and has caused the death of successive generations of the Baskervilles. When Sir Henry turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for assistance, Holmes suspects a fiendish plot, and begins to unravel the mysteries of the moors in a race against time to save Sir Henry from the fate of his ancestors.

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Samuel French, London

2005

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Samuel French, London

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Synopsis: A dead actor returns to the world as a ghost intent on mediating his tangled relationships with three women

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Samuel French, London

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Comedy

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Synopsis: As anyone familiar with Simon Williams' previous play Nobody's Perfect will know, the popular romantic novelist Myrtle Banbury is none other than divorced, male, statistician Lenny. In this sequel, Letitia Butters, presenter of the hit TV show Mind Your Own Business, wants to interview Myrtle Banbury in her own home and Lenny has a problem . . . How can he conduct the interview without having to appear to the great British public in drag?

The Mill, Sonning

1997

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Samuel French, London

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Synopsis: Unsuccessful novelist Leonard resorts to a female pseudonym and quickly finds success. But the only way it can continue is if he takes on the identity of his creation Myrtle Banbury in this fast and funny comedy