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Watch the Bible come to life... with these delightfully funny
sketches and monologues taken from familiar biblical narratives.
Written with great humor and charm, these 16 scripts are always in
good taste and contain pointed truths recognizable to everyone.
Each piece will be appropriate for audiences inside the church and
out. Martha Bolton's commitment is evident in each sketch's
message.
"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open
and inside there are three women I've seen before." Three old
friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard.
Tea and catastrophe. Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James
Macdonald.
A small cast, short version of an intimate psychological thriller
taken from Philomel Cottage. Enid rejects her fiance for newcomer
Gerald and moves to a remote country cottage with him - where a
dark and terrible climax takes place.
The love between a mother and daughter turns to jealousy and
bitterness in this intense and personal drama. Ann Prentice falls
in love with Richard Caulfield and hopes for a new life and
happiness. Only her daughter, Sarah, takes an instant, jealous
dislike to him. Resentment slowly corrodes their relationship as
each seeks comfort in the formidable and knowing Dame Laura
Whitstable who remarks, "The trouble with sacrifice is that once
it's made it's not over and done with." "Christie is beady-eyed and
brutally honest on the psychology of the motherdaughter
relationship." THE GUARDIAN "The play is a revelation and its
emotional intensity is at variance with most of her crime plays.
This is Christie writing with her heart rather than her head. She
is not concerned with clues and suspects and alibis but with human
dilemmas and life choices." THE GUARDIAN
Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter
to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge
and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his
wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the mantle of
avenging his father, continuing the bloodshed until peace is
ultimately found in the rule of law. Zinnie Harris reimagines this
ancient drama, using a contemporary sensibility to rework the
stories, placing the women in the centre. Orestes' leading role is
replaced by his sister Electra, who as a young child witnesses her
father's murder and is compelled to take justice into her own hands
until she too must flee the Furies.
Sir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned
womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a
serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one act thriller
that's contains one of Christie's most gruesome murders.
James Brent receives a chilling telephone call seemingly from
beyond the grave. His dead wife, Fay, is waiting for him at the
very place she met her grisly end. At his new wife's insistence,
they go to meet her as requested and in the process discover a
terrifying and disturbing truth.
An enlightened pharaoh falls foul of his conservative court when he
attempts to unite the polytheist Egyptians under one God - a course
of action that forces factions of both the army and priesthood to
turn against him. Undeterred, Akhnaton's vision of a kingdom where
people dwell in peace, truth, love and beauty will ultimately
destroy him and all those he holds dear. Regarded as one of her
most extraordinary plays, this epic historical drama is unlike
anything you have read of Christie's before.
In The Wasp's Nest, Hercule Poirot's come between a bitter triangle
of lovers to prevent a sinister murder before it takes place. In
Yellow Iris, a distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings
Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a man
commemorates the four-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death -
a death under very suspicious circumstances that Poirot himself
witnessed. Gathered is everyone present on that fateful night and
now Poirot must and a killer in the midst, before they strike
again.
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A Single Man
(Paperback)
Simon Reade; Originally written by Christopher Isherwood
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