Set on a roof garden on a day in the summer of 1952, the play tells the story of Helen and Henry Mansell-Smith who have been happily married for 11 years – but things start to fall apart.
Category: Thelma Dryden
(W.) Leslie Young
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Love In A Mist
Two couples – one married, one not – are touring Ireland in the 1950’s when they find themselves lost. Fortunately both couples find a very unusual bed-and-breakfast.
(W.) Leslie Young
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After My Fashion
A company wants to make a film as tribute to Christian Starcross about his expedition to Tibet, but new revelations about his personal life come to light.
(W.) Leslie Young
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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.
(W.) Leslie Young
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Bonaventure
A flood in the fen country has trapped two prison officials and their prisoner who is on her way to the gallows for murder. But Sister Mary Bonaventure is convinced of her innocence.
(W.) Leslie Young
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The Holly And The Ivy
Jenny must give up her love in order to care for her aging parson father. The father in turn is heartsick because he has never had the confidence of his children.
1951
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The Linden Tree
A college professor who has reached the age of retirement is urged by the family to live in comfort away from his gloomy academic surroundings.
1951
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The Pageant of Wimborne
It is recorded that Her Gracious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, visited the Manor of Canford – seat of my lord Mountjoy (and possibly what is known as Merley House) in June 1563.
(W.) Leslie Young
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Saloon Bar
The play follows the efforts of a group of regulars at a London pub as they try to discover the truth about their friend Will Graves who is due to hang the next day for murder
1950
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Lord Pym is standing as Conservative candidate at Lister Castle. When he loses the seat to the Labour candidate the household becomes at odds with one another.