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57 produkter
57 produkter
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When Edward Damson, English playwright, dies in his Aegean home, his son Philip, whom he never acknowledged, begs permission from his stepmother to write his biography. She warns that he will find it painful. Edward's life is mirrored in the Greek myth of Athena and Perseus who slays the Gorgon.
212 kr
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On her 70th birthday ex-actress Margot Buchanan is visited by Sadie Croft, an actress having an affair with her ex-husband Leo, who wants advice on playing Juliet. Leo arrives on the scene and promptly dies of a heart attack. His ghost then appears, anxious to sort matters out between his women.
212 kr
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Philip Conway, Deputy Prime Minister, is attending a party conference. He has been tipped to be the new party leader, but his campaign for powers is in serious danger of collapse. This is a play about the underhand dealing that goes on in political circles - who will get their just desserts?
212 kr
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Benjamin Cooper provides comfort and satisfaction to his wealthy patients, by improving their good looks with the aid of surgery. One of his patients is Angie Dell, a model at the peak of her powers. Her charms do not escape Benjamin, nor his old friend and former mentor, Hravic Zyergfoovc.
212 kr
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The action in this comedy of the strains and stresses of property buying and selling alternates between two locations and should be familiar to anyone who has ever experienced house buying!
212 kr
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Leon Winter always spices up his dinner parties with a practical joke or two, so when the electricity cuts out and a mysterious voice booms from the darkness the guests on this particular night do not think the worst. Then shots ring out and the joke turns into a nightmare.
212 kr
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Piers is a successful middle-aged businessman with a luxury London flat, a couple of Turners hanging on the wall, a pregnant young mistress, Larissa and an enraged middle-aged wife Rosie. When Larissa's husband, Darren, calls on Rosie, the two embittered partners commiserate and plot their revenge.
212 kr
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Howard, a well-known book publisher, is concerned for his wife, Joanna, who has become unusually distressed and nervous. When Howard arrives home one day to find that Joanna has shot his former friend, Perry, during a struggle, he decides to protect her by confessing to the shooting himself.
212 kr
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Double-entendres non-stop as the motley crew of the Grace Brothers department store prepare for a sale of German goods, then depart for their staff holiday at a one-star hotel in Spain. But will the heat, Spanish crumpet, giant woof-n-poofs, and randy revolutionaries prove too much for our lot?
212 kr
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At the end of Noel Coward's "Design for Living", two men and a woman embark on a menage a trois founded on mutual attraction and a conscious flouting of societal norms. This comedy attempts to answer the question of "what happened next?".
212 kr
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Ron, a retired headteacher and his wife Yvonne, a middle-aged would-be marathoner, have purchased their first caravan and are trying it out in Yorkshire. Then an elderly caravan appears next to theirs and the sounds of noisy love-making cause Ron and Yvonne to blush. Steph and Grant have arrived!
212 kr
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At first it seems as if journalist Henry Pratt is living a life that is rather small in scope - but all is due to change. A series of events challenge Henry the reporter and Henry the man and by the end of the play he is married and much wiser to the ways of the world.
212 kr
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David and Annie are partners - an unmarried middle-class couple starting their life together in a house they have bought from a charismatic but shifty Australian, Ike. When they receive a mysterious visitor, Hewlett, Annie plays the cheerful hostess while David is immediately suspicious.
212 kr
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212 kr
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Archie Lee Meighan's cotton gin business is foundering in the face of Silva Vacarro's Syndicate Gin. On the day Archie's furniture is repossessed he takes action, burning down the Syndicate Gin. Silva then pays Archie and his wife Baby Doll a visit, seeing the latter as the key to justice.
212 kr
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Guy Haines and Charles Bruno meet on a train. Because they're strangers they "can say anything they like" to one another. Bruno proposes the perfect murder: he will kill Guy's unfaithful wife if Guy will kill his much-hated father. Guy never imagines Bruno is serious. But Bruno is deadly serious.
212 kr
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212 kr
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This adaptation of Thackeray's novel traces the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley from the time when they were at school to their middle age. The play moves fluidly over a period of 30 years, the scenes remaining episodic and connected by the shifts in characters' fortunes and development.
229 kr
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The sequel to "Run for your wife" finds bigamist taxi driver, John Smith, still keeping both his families blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children have met on the Internet and are determined to see each other. With the help of lodger Stanley, John juggles with the truth.
212 kr
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Ex-boxer Spinks is myopic, poor and lonely, his one companion being the alcoholic Kingsley. To gain attention, he pretends to win the Lottery and is soon receiving freebies and handouts from people hoping to get a share of his fortune and, for the first time in ages, advances from women.
247 kr
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"House" and "Garden" are two plays with the same characters running simultaneously in adjacent auditoria. In "House" Teddy Platt, whose marriage is on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ryng-Mayne, and in "Garden", Teddy's jilted mistress threatens suicide as a garden fete is prepared.
212 kr
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Two plays set in the offices of Multiple Holdings. Rex, Harry and Osborne form an uncomfortable alliance against the management, as personified by Fletcher. In "We Don't Want to Lose You", Rex is ordered to sack Osborne, and "Cut and Dried" opens with the news that Rex's job is up for grabs.
212 kr
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Three households hold a "safari party" - a dinner party, where each course is served in a different house. Hors d'oevres are served by Daniel and Adam, entrees by Lol and Esther, and desserts by Inga. The households are linked not just socially, however: there's the question of the table.
212 kr
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The highly moral Mr Potter presides over a health farm and prides himself on his high standards of decency and decorum. But when Gerald Corby, arrives in search of peace and tranquility - only to be followed by a trio of ladies - the resulting misunderstandings prove more than a headache.
212 kr
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This take on the National Health Service sees chaos erupt as patients, agency nurses, doctors and sisters battle it out at the start of another busy weekend on the under-funded and under-staffed mixed ward at St Christopher's Hospital.
212 kr
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David Lawson, a research scientist, is not a well man. His sister Beatie thinks his wife Claire doesn't take care of him and journalist Kit Kelly begins to suspect that Claire may be guilty of more than just negligence as her grandmother and first husband died in mysterious circumstances...
212 kr
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Amy cares for her Aunt Sylvia who has Alzheimer's. Amy is loyally devoted to her Aunt so finds herself seriously tested when she meets and falls in love with Gregory, an antiquarian bookseller. As she tries to deal with the situation, Amy begins to see that a different, happier life is possible.
194 kr
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A man facing a terminal illness comes to a deserted beach, despondent and raging. He meets a woman who tells him that in the 5th century, Dwynwen, maid-in-waiting to the queen, deserted her faithless lover to live there. Dwynwen appears to the man and opens his eyes to the love and care of others.
194 kr
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194 kr
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This play focuses on the zany world of the movie extra. Novice Mary is sent to the film shoot of a dubious sci-fi movie. At the early morning call she is initiated by seasoned pros, morose Malcolm and camp Roddy, but with the arrival of wealthy, eccentric Victoria, matters become decidedly wacky.