Jack and Charley persuade their friend, an undergraduate Lord Fancourt Babberley, to impersonate an aunt. The complications of the plot begin with the arrival of the real aunt.
Category: Jeremy Austin
2003
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The Hollow
An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, arguably Christie’s finest comic grande dame.
2002
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Arms and the Man
Raina Petkoff is engaged to Sergius Saranoff, a dashing major in the Bulgarian army. All seems well until a Swiss professional bursts into her bedroom, and begs her to hide him.
2002
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An Inspector Calls
A tense and uncomfortable investigation by an all-knowing Inspector through which the Birling family discover that they are all in fact caught up in a poor girl’s death.
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…