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Here is a play about commitment and responsibility in love. Jack, an aspiring actor, is serious about his career but not about his girlfriend, Martha, an aspiring dancer. They drift along on a cloud of good times, until Martha gets pregnant. By the time Jack realizes he wants to make an emotional commitment to Martha and their child, she has had the baby and put it up for adoption. Martha becomes a self-sufficient contemporary woman, it is Jac...

The Polden Players have just left the stage after performing in a local drama festival. The production was a disaster and there is plenty of wit and repartee as sparks fly while they vent their feelings about the performance. It is apparent that each is using the theatre to escape from a humdrum life. When the Adjudicator arrives, they are surprised to get their just desserts.|3 women, 4 men

Alvi and Sam, partners and pals, have run a sporting goods store on New York's West Side for forty years. It's Memorial Day and they are taking stock of their inventory and their options. The neighborhood has changed, the yuppie landlord is raising the rent, and the customers don't know the first thing about sports. Sam wants to renovate, Alvi doesn't want to change a thing. As the two old friends struggle over their future, they reveal their ...

If God Wanted Us to Fly He Would Have Given Us Wings! is a set of three one-act plays, all spoofing the airlines. Plays include Terminal Terror, On Hold at 30, 000 Feet, and Identity Crisis.

Since the disappearance of her husband seveteen years before, Jane Mannion has lived a life of seclusion on the cornish coast with her children, David and Vanessa and a macabre old woman called Ellen. Suspected by local gossips of poisoning her husband (her mother was also a suspected poisoner) she shuns village society and extends a grudging welcome to her sons fiancee Maureen and her father. This last is a lawyer with a firm belief in heredi...

During a campaign in the Middle East, six men are lost in the Syrian desert, owing to the breakdown of their tank. They are Ben Joseph, the thoughtful Jewish sergeant, Donnington, a university man and a cynic, the Cockney, Elvin, an old soldier, Shaw, a solemn Yorkshireman, Hughes, an excitable Welshman, and young George, from a farm. A German plane spots them and sprays them with its machine-gun, wounding George, who has a premonition of deat...

The original version of The Quaker Girl was first produced at the Adelphi Theatre in 1910 where it ran for 536 performances and was subsequently played all over the world.

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Gay Vienna, before the First World War, the perfect setting for rash, romantic promises. Composer Rudi Kleber, penniless and unknown, befriends the schoolgirl niece of his landlady, and vows to propose to no-one until she is old enough to have first refusal. Operetta star Maria Ziegler recognizes his talent, sponsors his first success, and falls madly in love with him. But, foolishly idealistic, he keeps his word to the child until, three danc...

Lovelorn millionaire Oliver Stratton can't recall the name and address of the only woman he'll ever love and decides to go to Tibet, leaving his fortune to nurse Peggy. This causes the entire household (no-good nephew Derek, his lover Sylvia, Oliver's noble son George, Oliver's lady lawyer, and even the butler and maid) to devise complex ways to get the will changed in their favor or get into the safe containing the estate's liquidated assets ...

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In this adaptation of the famous story the time scale has been altered so that the action is continuous. The story-teller's songs, which are included in the text, can be sung by the doctor or, the author suggests, could be played as Hans Andersen himself telling the story from a position outside the main acting area.|2 women, 6 men

Anne and Mervyn, a seemingly well-settled middle-aged couple, are awaiting the arrival of Helen and David, a younger couple who were formerly their neighbors and close friends. Their reunion begins on a light and humorous note, but as the after-dinner talk grows more serious we become aware that the two couples had once engaged in an adulterous arrangement-and both have found it difficult to deal with the self-recriminations which this has cre...

One of the most thrilling plays ever, this is a medley of mystery, farce and intrigue an especially fine example of the American mystery play and one of the outstanding dramatic successes of modern times. A writer goes to a mountain inn to plot. He gets more than he bargained for.

When Roger Kenton invites an important South American client to his country cottage for the weekend, it is with the idea of getting the client¿s signature on a contract by Sunday night. Things don¿t go according to plan, however. Roger¿s wife Vickie goes home to mother, which is awkward, since the client will only do business with a happy family man. Even more awkward, Vickie comes back again, just as Roger has succeeded in arranging a tempora...

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

The story of the development of a humorless young Scotchman whose great political success is due entirely to his wife. A young and very earnest Scotch youth steals into the home of well-to-do people in order to get books to help him get on in the world. He is caught in the act and makes an agreement with the family whereby they are to support him until he gets his start. In return for this, he is to marry the very plain daughter of the family....

A truly Grand Guignol play, with rapacious servants, venomous Dobermans, meat hooks, and mutilations. In a gothic mansion in England lives a grande dame with three servants and, on this occasion, a small grandson whose parents are traveling abroad. Two men masquerading as telephone repairmen abduct the grandson for ransom, and the grandmother, in order to keep hidden certain family skeletons, readily pays. But then the bloody machinations begi...

When Millie, an elderly helper at Westway Rest Home, dies seemingly impoverished, the authorities refuse to pay funeral expenses. Eddie, Millie's friend, is enraged and alerts a journalist, Lisa. Millie is pushed into the limelight when she's found to have won a million pounds. Immediately two money-grabbing relatives appear, but Lisa finds Millie's illegitimate daughter, uncovering a heartbreaking story which finally vindicates Millie.|4 wome...

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