A man reliant on wife’s money asks for divorce after ten years of marriage, on refusal he attempts to kill her, and then other murders ensue…
Category: Thelma Dryden
1963
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Night Must Fall
This taught psychological thriller, first presented in 1935, has terrified and thrilled Broadway and London audiences for decades, and has been adapted to film three times.
1962
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A Murder Has Been Arranged
Sir Charles Jasper is an eccentric who delves into the mystical. He is due to inherit two million pounds on his fortieth birthday and plans to celebrate.
(W.) Leslie Young
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See How They Run
So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race.
1964
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The White Sheep Of The Family
This impious comedy is about a family of well-to-do crooks who are shocked when the son, an excellent forger, quits the fold to go straight. The reason is not long hidden: he has met a girl.
1963
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Sadly the plot of Sorry, Wrong Number is currently unknown. This play was performed as part of an evening of one act plays with The Dear Departed and Tea For Three.
1962
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Anti-Clockwise
Sadly the plot of Anti-Clockwise is currently unknown. This play was performed as part of an evening of one act plays with Two Pounds And A Crown and Art With A Capital “A”.
(W.) Leslie Young
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The Secret Tent
A young wife who has been missing and presumed murdered returns home only to find that her husband’s feelings for her have completely changed.
1964
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The Man In The Bowler Hat
A terribly exciting little affair happens in the humdrum life of John and Mary, a tempest in a teapot, but while it lasts–well, it’s high comedy, at least for the audience!
1963
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Tea For Three
Sadly the plot of Tea For Three is currently unknown. This play was performed as part of an evening of one act plays with The Dear Departed and Sorry, Wrong Number.
(W.) Leslie Young
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Queen Elizabeth Slept Here
Where Elizabeth slept is a tumbledown country cottage that Norah Fuller has just bought. Her husband is less enthusiastic about it than she is as there are no modern conveniences.
1957
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Dark Brown
The scene is the living room at the back of Arthur Brown’s tobacconist shop, in a small town near London on the evening of a summer’s day towards the end of the last century.