Set in a fictional ‘alternate present’, the action takes place in a hospitality facility that is somewhere between an airport lounge and a budget hotel. In the recent past, the powers-that-be have taken the view that the institution of marriage, viewed as the bedrock...
“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...
’The simple fact is that we took our decision long ago. We rehearsed the arguments. We weighed them up. We came to our conclusion. After that, we visited the notary and together drew up our living wills. It seems to me there’s really very little more to be said.’ ...
Frustrated that the male-dominated committee of the Parish Pump Players generally ignores the fact that the majority of the acting membership is female, the women decide to take matters into their own hands. Their choice of play is a freely-adapted version of...
