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Taking Sides
4 Male, 3 Female
Taking Sides takes place in the American Zone of occupied Berlin, in 1946. It is here the American portion of the De-Nazification Tribunal has convened to take over the questioning of Wilhelm Furtwängler,…
Sir Donald Wolfit - His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre
"Sir Donald Wolfit, C.B.E - that was how he liked to think of himself, the actor-manager, the Victorian, distinguished, honoured, respected; it was, undoubtedly, the greatest handicap to his career Wolfit,…
The Collected Plays of Ronald Harwood - A Family & The Dresser & J.J. Farr & Another Time
Ronald Harwood came to England from South Africa in 1951 and began writing in 1960 He is also the author of "After the Lions", "Tramway Road" and "The deliberate Death of a Polish Priest"
The Handyman
A play which looks at questions surrounding culpability, revenge and retribution, universal responsibility and the possibility of evil. An elderly Ukrainian odd-job man, who had been brought to an upper-middle-class…
J.J. Farr
The theme of this play is religious faith in crisis. J.J. Farr, a former Roman Catholic priest, has been held hostage and tortured by arab terrorists On his return to England he finds refuge among a community…
After the Lions
Set in France during the First World War, After the Lions takes as its subject the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, portrayed here towards the end of her illustrious career. “She wants to go on acting “ remonstrates…
Ivanov
6 Male, 5 Female
Ivanov was Anton Chekhov’s first full-length play. When it was premiered in Moscow in 1887 it was given a mixed reception but a revised version presented in St. Petersburg in 1889, was triumphantly received…
Interpreters
4 Male, 2 Female
Nadia is an old maidish Russian translator in the Foreign Office. She is therefore intimately involved in negotiations over the forthcoming visit of the Soviet President The English translator for the…
Tramway Road
3 Male, 1 Female
The play is set in 1951, one year after the Population Registration Act was passed in South Africa. Tramway Road had a special notoriety for all those who lived in Sea Point, a white residential suburb…
Another Time
3 Male, 2 Female
It is the early 1950s in Sea point, Cape Town. Leonard Lands, aged seventeen and the only child of immigrant parents, is already an outstandingly gifted pianist. It is clear that he must go to Europe to…
The Ordeal of Gilbet Pinfold
Large Cast Male, 4 Female
In 1954, Evelyn Waugh, reacting against a bitterly cold winter, and suffering from bouts of rheumatism and insomnia and forgetfulness, set off alone on a sea voyage to Ceylon On his return to England,…
The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest
Large Cast Male, 3 Female
Father Jerzy Popieluszko was more than a priest. He was an outspoken pacifist, opponent of social repression and supporter of the outlawed Solidarity movement Ronald Harwood’s play is a dramatisation of…
