A selection of scenes, sketches and music to celebrate the life, times and achievements of Thomas Hardy.
Category: Hugh Brasnett
1989
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Larkrise
Larkrise depicts the lives of a small rural community in Oxfordshire from a harvest day in the late 19th century up to calling the names of the village dead in the First World War.
1989
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Cup Final
The Polden Players have just left the stage after performing in a local drama festival. The production was a disaster sparks fly while they vent their feelings about the performance.
1988
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Pack of Lies
All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks the Jackson family to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.
1988
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Streuth
This is a crime story that not even Agatha Christie would have dared to write and it gets itself into such confusion that it is doomed, apparently, to perpetual motion.
1987
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House Guest
Robert and Stella learn that their son has been kidnapped – not for ransom, but to force them to allow one of the kidnappers to remain in their house.
1987
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The Matchmaker
Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Yonkers, NY, has a plan. He has been a widower for long enough and now he wants to find a wife.
1986
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Olde Tyme Music Hall
Where and When 12th July 1985 @ The Allendale Centre, Wimborne December 1986 @ The…
1985
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Fish Out Of Water
Agatha rounds up the hotel guests in communal games and other healthy pursuits. Her unflagging spirit of togetherness invades the lives of all the characters with riotous results.
1984
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Devil May Care
Trainee devil, Nicholas has been sent to Monte Carlo to lure souls for the Powers That Be. At the Hotel Splendide he meets another (higher level) trainee Virginia.