Portfolio Tag: Plays

The three short plays, which will all be stage during the same performance, are respectively, moving, witty and hilarious. The Train, by Carl Slotboom, two railway carriages are shown simultaneously. An elderly Jewish couple, David and Clara sit in the modern train whilst their younger selves are seen in a converted cattle wagon in the…

Listen very carefully - I will say zis only once! Meet Rene, the most wanted man in Occupied France: Women want his body. The Resistance wants his brain. And the Nazis want his sausage! In a small cafe in occupied France the harassed proprietor, Rene, is fighting his own war. With the German Army in…

The show, written by Richard Harris, is a warm and very funny play about the lives, laughs and loves of one man and a group of women of varying ages, sizes and backgrounds attending a weekly tap dance class in a dingy North London church hall. There's ex-professional dancer Mavis, the class teacher, who loves…

This comedy, yet another in a long line of successes from author Ray Cooney, is the sequel to the hilarious farce "Run For Your Wife" which enjoyed a much-enjoyed run with the Concorde Players in 2004. Those who missed "Run For Your Wife" needn't worry for knowledge of it was necessary to enjoy this sequel,…

John Smith is a London Cab Driver who lives a very ordinary life with the exception of having two wives, Mary in Wimbledon and Barbara in Streatham. One night John stops an old woman from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with…

This modern, murder-mystery play (by Bettine Mankowicz) had all the classic elements and twists of a ripping-good whodunnit, brought right up to date. When an amateur dramatics group turn up for rehearsals in their theatre at the end of a seaside pier, they soon find themselves locked in, cut off, and isolated. Then people start…

An announcement is placed in the local paper stating the time and place of a murder to occur in Miss Blacklock's early-Victorian house in the village of Chipping Cleghorn. However, the victim is not one of the several occupants (permanent or temporary), but an unexpected and unknown visitor. A classic Agatha Christie tale (adapted for…

This murder-mystery, by Agatha Christie, centres on a weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, about eighteen miles from London, one weekend in early September in 1952, when an unhappy game of follow-my-leader develops into sinister murder and intrigue. Dr John Cristow is at the centre of the trouble, for at…

This hilarious comedy by Terence Frisby, set in the 1960s, tells the story of Robert Danvers, a middle-aged "Casanova" and his relationship with 19 year old Marion. Robert, a food and wine critic and a TV presenter, is exceedingly vain. When he and Marion meet, he doesn't believe for one minute that he can't "have…

The first act is set in the drawing room of Barry and Pamela Layton, in their home which they share with Pamela's elderly uncle Luke. Department of Trade employee, Barry, has faked the flu in order to have the afternoon off to spend with Pamela as it's her birthday. Unfortunately, as he left the office,…