Häftad, Engelska, 1978
219 kr
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115 produkter
115 produkter
- Häftad, Engelska, 2019
219 kr
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Plays for five ladies. Including: Mothers Know Best: A Miniature Domestic Comedy, Four Characters And A Corpse: A Miniature Murder Mystery, Mixing with the Right People: A Miniature Farce, The Tinder Girl: A Miniature Ghost Story, The Sitter-In: A Miniature Crime Comedy and Jeannie: A Miniature Drama.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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Six fifteen-minute comedies, including: The Clean Up, Trying to Take Things Quietly, Scherzo in Two Flats, Father's Economy Drive, Art for Art's Sake and The Man who Understood Women.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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The Affair is a 1962 play by Ronald Millar based on the novel by C.P. Snow. A group of professors at Cambridge University try to hire an old colleague back even though they all don't like him, they all agree he was dismissed unfairly. - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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This historical romp finds diarist and 'father of the Admiralty Samuel Pepys rescuing lovely singer Mrs Knight from a violent pickpocket, then slyly arranging a musical tryst with her that evening. His dinner guests include young francophile dandy Pelham Humphries and brazen Mrs Pierce and Mrs Knepp, but Pepys declares he has urgent business at the Navy office. His attractive wife sees him dress up, and knowing his ways with women, doesn't believe his story. Back home Sam and wife confront one another with various accusations, protestations and extractions of mutual promises of fidelity. It is now past midnight, their adventures are over... and so to bed.
10 women, 12 men
- Häftad, Engelska, 1968
219 kr
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When unexpected guests are inflicted on Barbara, she receives milk, comfort, and more from the milkman.-3 women, 3 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1999
219 kr
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Mr Hanacott has recently passed on. His will aims to secure the future of his family and ensure his farm is managed efficiently. To this end he insists that his sister, Prudence, should bring her business acumen to the farm. However, running a farm is rather different from running a successful draper's shop and her methods are not always welcomed by the family, the farm staff or the villagers. A production of an amateur play leads to problems on the farm - including some sexual frissons. But how to get rid of her? Well - that's the question!6 women, 3 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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Someone has attempted to poison James Ondersley. Inviting the potential cuplrits to a weekend party, James has an elaborate plot to find out and reveal the would-be murderer.
| 7 women, 5 men
- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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Tony accepts the situation somewhat philosophically, but his American fiancee, June, has other ideas. When she learns that there is to be a by-election - Cleghorn having been raised to the peerage - she secretly puts up the deposit money and gets the butler nominated as the Conservative candidate. She also breaks her engagement to Tony, who has decided to contest the seat again, this time as a Socialist, and who turns to Bessie the pretty parlourmaid for consolation. Beecham wins the seat, and Tony announces his intended marriage to Bessie. As the new M.P., Beecham applies for the Chiltern Hundreds and happily resumes his job of butler, revealing his love for Bessie, who promises to be his wife.4 women, 4 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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This popular and appealing college and little theatre play tells the story of a child brought to a convent and of the extraordinary change in the lives of the nuns wrought by the presence of the infant. The child grows to young womanhood and the nuns lavish upon her all the tenderness which is usually absent from the lives of those who have dedicated themselves to God.10 women, 4 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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One night Stephen Barlow invites one of his young pupils home for additional tutoring. There is an evident bond between them; his is one of regard, and hers is one of admiration. But Stephen's wife, Grace, misreads the bond, and persuades herself that the two are in love. The sudden prospect of losing her husband's love to a young girl leads her to a cruel attack upon the girl, who is mortally embarrassed and conscience stricken. She runs away into the night. Stephen goes after her, but is not able to find her. Days pass, and there is no sign of her. The police drag the river and search every corner. Stephen is openly suspected of having seduced and murdered the girl.8 women, 2 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2022
216 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2018
219 kr
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A woman with two grown-up sons and a daughter surprises her children on the eve of one of their marriage with the news that they are all illegitmate, each with a di erent father. After much ado, they decide to continue as before with the portrait of "Dear Charles" unknown father and patriarch, above the mantle, as 'father' to them all.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2019
210 kr
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Delachume, a charming young man, is married to a rich, hysterical wife; they live in luxury in Paris, and their worldly goods are shared by Georges' parents and his best friend Jacques, not to mention Jacques' wife Barbara, all of whom have been in comfort for years. Then into Georges' life comes Isabelle, a quiet young girl with a kind heart and humble upbringing. Georges succumbs to a longing for an uncomplicated life - shared, of course, with Isabelle. He spins stories for her about his family life and for one night he hires house, servants and stage parents, but his real family materalize, and Isabelle discovers the truth.-6 women, 6 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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One of four plays by the late English actress, writer and dramatist, Mary Hayley Bell, Duet for Two Hands ran on Broadway in 1947. A classic thriller about a pioneering surgeon and the sinister results of his work.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
216 kr
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The Stafford family are all in need of money in one way or the other. They have been secretly doing the football pools - secretly because Grandma who lives with them disapproves. - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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The Hapgoods are a typical suburban family, neither rich nor poor. They are affectionate in their various ways, but Mrs Hapgood is too sentimentally possessive, a fact which the children find rather frustrating. As the children grow up, marry and move on, the family circle fragments.|4 women, 5 men
- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
219 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
219 kr
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Gerald Coates wife, Babs, arrives home drunk from a day racing with a disreputable man. She is always getting drunk. They argue and in the struggle she is stabbed to death. Gerald panics and hides the body.3 women, 6 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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Set immediately after the Great War in 1918. Maugham called it "a farce in three acts". After the death of her husband, William, the spoilt and beautiful Victoria married his best friend, Frederick. When William comes back after the war alive after all, each man can hardly wait to surrender her to the other. However, Victoria seems to have another admirer waiting in the wings.-7 women, 5 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
210 kr
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A novelist and his family are in poor straits; for Father has not managed to write anything in years. An American, named Simon, buys the novelist's old castle and comes with his brother, Neil, to take possession.-7 women, 7 men - Häftad, Engelska, 1969
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Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. He returns home for his mother's funeral and finds himself involved in the same awful problems he left behind, together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing "Italian girl".4 women, 3 men - Häftad, Engelska, 1970
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Young David Armstrong misses his mother. Following her death, he now lives alone in their North Country house, a devoted member of the Salvation Army. His estranged father Thomas, a coarse philanderer, reappears uninvited and unwanted. David meets an attractive barmaid Bess and persuaded by him to take a vacant room in the house, she becomes involved with Thomas as the volatile situation comes to a head.-2 women, 2 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
210 kr
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It is 1950 and revolution has swept a country and now reached a mission station which cares for children. A new Communist government has taken over and there has been persecution of Nuns and Priests throughout the province. The Mission has been cut off from the local village and the orphaned children have been removed. The British Consul, together with his wife Ruth visits the Mission, both have a deep-seated dislike of Germans because of their son's death in the Second World War. A letter arrives from Mei Cheng the governing General of the province addressed to Sister Magdalen. This elderly Nun looked after Mei Cheng when he was an orphaned boy many years previously and is the Generals Godmother. - 6 women, 3 men - Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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Cecily Harrington has led a staid and proper existence. After winning a large amount of money in a sweepstake she desperately yearns for a life of adventure. Enter Bruce Lovell, a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps her off her feet. In a whirlwind romance, she recklessly abandons her job, friends and fianc� to settle in the remote and blissful surroundings of a country cottage. However, her newfound "love from a stranger" is not what it seems and in an astonishingly tense final scene, Cecily discovers the ghastly truth of her new love.
"The final act is sure of its effect. The suspense is maintained; each turn of the story is clear and striking; the terror-stricken self-control of the girl and the man's gross and abominable insanity are depicted with every refinement. A successful thriller."
THE TIMES
"There is authentic and tremendous suspense about the struggle between Bruce and his wife. One feels that, if any bird did nest near this cottage, it would be the croaking raven or the fatal owl." THE OBSERVER
- Häftad, Engelska, 2025
219 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
219 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
219 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2017
219 kr
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Zany, madcap events transpire at the Reverend Lionel Toop's vicarage in Merton-cum-Middlewick. The plot revolves around Lionel's wife, Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Ida's suitor, the droll Willie Briggs. The most fantastic complications ensue when the triumvirate wins, or when they think they have won, more than 20,000 English pounds. Lending richly comic hands are the old maid parishioner, Miss Skillon, and Penelope's out-of-this-world uncle, The Bishop of Lax.|3 women, 4 men
