This play by one of the world’s greatest poets tells of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket who, though tempted, refuses to seize temporal control of England.
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2000
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No Room For Love
Dr. Garfield arrives at the moderately seedy Lawns Hotel hoping to spend a discreet weekend with his attractive receptionist Michele. Not a chance …
2000
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The Crucible
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A small group of girls ‘cry out’ against other people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft, in an attempt to cover up their own dabblings in the occult.
2000
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Habeas Corpus
The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round. Family, friends and the sexual satisfaction of the “corpus” (body) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners.
1999
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Blithe Spirit
Charles Condomine, a fussy and cantankerous novelist, has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira.
1999
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The Roses of Eyam
A remarkable true story of a village stricken with plague through the arrival from London of a box of clothing; of the villagers’ determination to prevent its spread and contain the disease.
1999
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Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
Lord Arthur Savile’s is engaged to lovely Sybil Merton. Her pet chiromantist Podgers has read Lord Arthur’s palm and foretold he would commit a murder…
1998
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Fur Coat and No Knickers
This play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark, which begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll.
1998
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Sweeney Todd
Bond’s adaptation of the classic melodrama positions the murderous barber as a wronged man seeking vengeance against his numerous oppressors.
1997
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Mr Macaroni and the Exploding Pizza Pie
This fun-filled play revolves around the antics of three waiters sacked by Mr Macaroni, the money-minded owner of the Pizza Pie Palace.
1997
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An Evening with Gary Lineker
July 4th, 1990. In Italy, England are playing Germany in the Semi final of the World Cup. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday trying to rekindle a failing marriage.
1996
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Forty Years On
A fictional public school which is preparing to perform an end-of-term play. The end-of-term play deals farcically with the aftermath of the First World War.