Category: Comedy

1966

Mr Fothergill Joins The Angels

Wimborne Drama,

22nd April, 196623rd October, 2023

Mr Fothergill lives with his mother, a shrewd and humerous old lady, and his wife. He is so ineffably good that he has sprouted a small pair of wings which he is proud to show his visitors.

1964

The White Sheep Of The Family

Wimborne Drama,

12th November, 196423rd October, 2023

This impious comedy is about a family of well-to-do crooks who are shocked when the son, an excellent forger, quits the fold to go straight. The reason is not long hidden: he has met a girl.

1964

Holiday Eve

Wimborne Drama,

30th April, 196423rd October, 2023

The Fisher family arrive back home from their holiday glad to be back. They find that they left the gas on. the baby will not stop crying so the doctor is sent for and the baby has measles.

1964

The Tea Cosy

Wimborne Drama,

30th April, 196423rd October, 2023

Sadly the plot of The Tea Cosy is currently unknown. This play was performed as part of an evening of one act plays with The Man In The Bowler Hat and Holiday Eve.

1964

The Man In The Bowler Hat

Wimborne Drama,

30th April, 196423rd October, 2023

A terribly exciting little affair happens in the humdrum life of John and Mary, a tempest in a teapot, but while it lasts–well, it’s high comedy, at least for the audience!

1963

The Dear Departed

Wimborne Drama,

26th April, 196323rd October, 2023

The play ‘The Dear Departed’ by Stanley Houghton is a story that depicts the sad reality of the modern nuclear families that are strained with selfish interests and individual desires.

1962

Love’s A Luxury

Wimborne Drama,

29th November, 196223rd October, 2023

A theatre producer and an actor try and have a quiet week in a country cottage. Their efforts are thwarted by the arrival of a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters!

1960

See How They Run

Wimborne Drama,

8th April, 196023rd October, 2023

So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race.

1957

Sunday Costs Five Pesos

Wimborne Drama,

27th September, 195723rd October, 2023

The scene is a housed-in square in the town of Four Cornstalks in Northern Mexico. The time – early one sunny Sunday afternoon. The is the present.

1957

The Happy Marriage

Wimborne Drama,

12th April, 195723rd October, 2023

Set on a roof garden on a day in the summer of 1952, the play tells the story of Helen and Henry Mansell-Smith who have been happily married for 11 years – but things start to fall apart.