Bob is on ‘gardening leave’ but he’s anxious ‘to get back in the saddle’. Work is Bob’s life. For him, it’s an imperative, a compulsion. What is life without a job? It has to be the right job, of course. That’s not to say that money isn’t important. And although...
“You can live here on eight dollars a day. Six if you’re careful. Less if you’re very careful.” Set in an expatriate household in a fishing-village in South-East Asia, Gerard is an ever-darkening comedy in a landscape of memory, escape and despair. Are Gerard and his...
Arnold Ridley’s classic comedy-thriller was first produced in the West End in 1925 and has been a firm favourite with professional and non-professional theatre companies ever since. The play has been filmed three times and translated into seventeen languages. The...
Godfrey’s Ghost is, at its heart, the story of a father written by his son. As a young man, Arnold Ridley was chiefly known as the author of the long-running comedy thriller, The Ghost Train. Today he is remembered for his television performances as Private Godfrey,...
