Jean McConnell – författare

A collection of four twist-in-the-tail plays for two women: "Day Trippers", "The Guilt Card", "Theatrical Digs" and "Short Changed". All set by the seaside, and delicately observing life, they are full of animated characters.

This is collection of three one act plays for two women. In "Cupboard Love", Peggy and Jane find they share a passion for cooking and gentlemen friends; in "Last Post" an army widow makes an unwelcome discovery about her late husband; and in "Cruise Missile", Janet meets the flamboyant Goldie.

This is Jean McConnell's fourth volume of Deckchairs plays, each with a cast of two women and requiring only a simple setting. Two are comedies, two dramas, and all display Jean McConnell's keen-eyed view of human nature and of the foibles and fancies of women in particular."Garden Pests", a comedy, focusses on two keen gardeners meeting in a magnificent garden from which neither intends to go home empty-handed."Grannies", a drama, introduces us to Jenny, reluctantly looking after her teenage daughter's baby, and to Barbara, whose deep grandmotherly feelings have led her into a very strange situation."Outdoor Pleasures", a comedy, finds long-suffering Deirdre waiting for an outdoor production of Much Ado About Nothing to start, accompanied by her awkward and far-from-enthusiastic Aunt Tottie."Remember Me", a drama, takes place in a corner of a garden at a wedding reception. Elizabeth and Sarah, who shared a flat many years before, meet for the first time since then, and Sarah seizes her chance to let Elizabeth know what she feels about her actions in the past.

George and Seraphine run a cafe in a small French town. Seraphine is fed up with the drudery of her daily life, and feels that George doesn't appreciate her. George seeks solace with his mistress, Yvette, but she too is becoming disgruntled, living in a leaky apartment and longing for a comfortable housewife's existence. George's friend Aramis suggests that the two women should swap lives for a while, so Seraphine duly goes to live in Yvette's apartment and Yvette joins George in the running of the cafe. Unfortunately for George, Yvette is not quite the homemaker that Seraphine was, and soon he is pining for his capable and efficient wife. George's Aunt Marie turns up and mistakes Yvette for Seraphine, whom she has never met. She proceeds to stay for two weeks, criticizing Yvette's housework. Eventually Seraphine returns home and she and Yvette agree that they were both better off as they were. As Aramis points out, maybe it's George who is the real root of their problems.