The story is basically one long chase, chiefly after two naughty grocer’s assistants, who, when their master goes off on a binge with a new mistress, escape to Vienna on a spree.
Category: Peter Brooks
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.
1983
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There Goes The Bride
A beleaguered advertising executive struggles to plan his daughter’s wedding after a knock on the head leaves him confused and obsessed with a beautiful, but imaginary, young woman.
1979
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Dr Morelle
Brian Cartwright, impecunious adventurer, blackmails four unfortunates unwittingly involved in a crime. As zero hour approaches he invites them all to dine with him.
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.
1986
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Three Knaves of Normandy
Knave, Nuns and Nourishment was held as a charity fundraising event to raise money for The British Heart Foundation and Save The Children Fund.
1983
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Ten Times Table
The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history. But there’s a left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution.
1970
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Little Boxes – Trevor
To satisfy their parents, two lesbians invent a boyfriend and hire an out of work actor to meet one pair of parents, but both sets of parents turn up at the same time.
1990
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Charley’s Aunt
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.
1985
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Dear Octopus
The life of an English family shown in terms of the chatter of youngsters, the careers and nursery memories of the middle-aged and the sense of the swift passing of the years.
1982
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Harlequinade
Harlequinade is the story of two ageing actors desperately trying to cling to the ever-diminishing limelight while rehearsing for a production of Romeo and Juliet.
1970
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Little Boxes – The Coffee Lace
The Coffee Lace concerns an ageing group of variety performers who have long since given up the outside world and lived at subsistence level on goods picked up on the Underground.