Guy Haines and Charles Bruno meet on a train. One suggests that they could get away with murder. One does not take it seriously, but the other is deadly serious.
Category: Phyllis Spencer
2019
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Gaslight
Bella Manningham suffers from what she believes are the early stages of insanity. Her spends his evenings out on the town in order to cope. Or so he makes her believe.
2018
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Murder on the Nile
Fatal circumstances await a newlywed couple as they embark on their honeymoon voyage down the Nile but fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings.
2018
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Single Spies
Single Spies is the collective name for this double bill of one-act plays about two of the most celebrated spies of modern times: Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.
2018
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The Winslow Boy
Set in 1912, the play follows the efforts of the Winslow family to clear the name of 14 year old Ronnie Winslow, expelled from naval college for allegedly stealing a five-shilling postal order.
2017
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Travels With My Aunt
Henry Pulling leads a boringly conventional life as a retired bank manager when he meets his long-estranged Aunt Augusta at his mother’s funeral.
2017
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The Ghost Train
A ghostly driver, sudden deaths and a travelling parrot make this 1920s thriller an unnervingly hilarious exploration of our capacity for belief in the supernatural.
2016
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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.
2016
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Relative Values
A comedy of manners in which an American movie actress is preparing to wed a British earl. Smack in the middle of a sedate dinner in the English mansion comes Miranda’s former flame.
2016
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Shadowlands
The love story of C.S. Lewis – Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters – and American poet Joy Davidman.
2015
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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
2015
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Pride and Prejudice
A husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet’s most urgent priority. With four sisters, a match-making mother, and a string of unsuitable suitors, it’s difficult to escape the subject.