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Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 - 13 February 1952), a Scottish author. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. This adaptation for the stage stays true to the original story and can be performed with a simple set and...

Aristophanes is acknowledged as the greatest of the Greek comic writers and is the only one whose works has survived in complete form. He was born in Athens and had his first comedy produced when he was so young that his name was withheld on account of his youth. He is credited with over forty plays, eleven of which survive, along with the names and fragments of some twenty-six others. He died in 388 BC. "The Frogs" was produced the year afte...

The Cat and the Canary was written by John Willard and was first performed in New York in 1922. There are at least four film versions of the story, the first being a very influential silent film released in 1927. This new version imagines the original play being performed as a live radio broadcast and should be presented on stage with the actors reading from scripts and the sound effects being performed live in view of the audience. The twist ...

Romantic Comedy. One easy split set comprising public bar and café. Four elderly but not over the hill characters find that one is never too old to fall in love but issues from that past must be resolved before one can make plans for the future. Dorothy and Betty have known each other since childhood and their constant bickering belies a deep held fondness for one another. Straight-laced Tom and aging rogue Bill have recently become unlikely f...

This play is presented as though it is an instructional video that the audience are watching being filmed. Maddy will present a variety of methods for disposing of an unwanted husband, aided by Jim, her real life husband, and her faithful employees. But is she really trying to get rid of her husband? Is the video just a ruse to lull him into a false sense of security? The parallels with their real life relationship give Jim plenty to worry abo...

The Mikado is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most celebrated comic operas and is as popular today as it was when it first opened in 1885. By setting the opera in Japan, W. S. Gilbert was able to satirise British politics and institutions freely but everyone understood who was the true target for the humour. In my updated version I have set the action in a hospital and have a few gentle little digs at bureaucracy but maintain the utmost respect ...

Brewster's Millions is a story that has entertained generations of readers and movie goers. This new adaptation for the stage has been based on the original novel and is set in the roaring thirties when more millionaires were created than at any other time in history.Six actors play twenty-nine characters in this fast-paced comedy as Monty attempts to lose a fortune to gain an even bigger one.

New adaptation of the classic play by Henrick Ibsen written in 1881.

A Prequel to Life Begins at Seventy, Life Begins Again looks at the events that changed Dorothy's life. A standalone play in it's own right, Life Begins Again will delight audiences with this slice of 1980s romantic comedy