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Frank Williams

FRANK WILLIAMS

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Film Rights Ltd  

Frank Williams's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Frank Williams's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alibi For A Murder         Boating Lake, The         Mask For Murder, A         Murder By Appointment         Murder Weekend         Playing Fields, The         Two Children on a See-Saw

Alibi For A Murder

Synopsis:
the Festival of Britain 1951. Charles believes that his wife is having an affair with a younger man, David. He plots to kill her. He wants to establish a cast iron alibi and gets Richard a lonely, gay man to provide it. Charles murders his wife in front of David but when the police arrive all the evidence points to David who is arrested and convicted. then Charles starts getting blackmail threats from Richard.

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Genre:
Thriller. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Boating Lake, The

Synopsis:
1938 and the Brent family arrive at their holiday destination. It is somewhere they have been going to for years. But there is a sense that things are changing and that nothing will be the same again. Robert, the patriarch has cancer but has told no one. His son and daughter in law Edward and Lavinia are not seeing eye to eye. His grandson, David seems to be very unhappy but will not say why.

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Mask For Murder, A

Synopsis:
Her first husband died under suspicious circumstances and when she returns from honeymoon her new husband is taken ill and then dies. It is from arsenic poisoning. the first husband is exhumed and he too died of poisoning. But the wife is not the only suspect - there is the housekeeper who is unhappy and also the wife's nine year old son who has a crush on the young doctor who lives next door.

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Genre:
Thriller. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Murder By Appointment

Synopsis:
A young man's body has been found. He had been beaten and murdered. Suspicion centres around the family of the editor of the local newspaper. His younger son, still at school is a bully. His eldest son is a reporter for the newspaper and keeps his homosexuality a secret

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Samuel French, London, 1985   -

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Murder Weekend

Synopsis:
A young couple have set up an hotel and are having a Murder Weekend. the guests arrive - they are going to re-enact a real life murder from the 1930s.

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Thriller

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Playing Fields, The

Synopsis:
World War Two and two pupils at a public school are about to leave. they know they will be called up and most likely will die fighting. One, Groves, sneaks out of school to meet a girl in the village. the other, Raleigh, is romantically involved with one of the other boys at school

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1st Produced:
Wimbledon Studio, London    2003

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PanArts

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Two Children on a See-Saw

Synopsis:
Norah is a lonely old lady. She fantasises about her past and talks to imaginary people. David, an actor, lives in the flat beneath her. He has just split up with his lover. One day Norah lets her bath run over and David comes up as water is coming through his ceiling. they strike up a friendship. David meets a new young man, also an actor, and Norah thinks he is wonderful. they both get a part in a new West End production and Norah goes to the first night.

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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