John Worthing escapes the burdens of responsibility to have an exciting life in the city, pretending to be his fictitious younger brother Ernest.
Category: Val Mantle
2010
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The Unexpected Guest
Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. An unexpected guest decides to help
2005
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Murder in the Cathedral
This play by one of the world’s greatest poets tells of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket who, though tempted, refuses to seize temporal control of England.
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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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.
1998
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Fur Coat and No Knickers
This play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark, which begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll.
1997
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A Voyage Round My Father
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from a trellis surrounded garden.
1997
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An Evening with Gary Lineker
July 4th, 1990. In Italy, England are playing Germany in the Semi final of the World Cup. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday trying to rekindle a failing marriage.
1996
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Forty Years On
A fictional public school which is preparing to perform an end-of-term play. The end-of-term play deals farcically with the aftermath of the First World War.
1996
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Woman in Mind
Ayckbourn creates a set of believable people whose weaknesses and foibles are food for mirth. We laugh at ourselves through his characters and the experience is at once pain.