This collection of Peter Barnes' plays comprises three duologues
and one three-hander dealing with "the absurdly tragic and the
tragically absurd". In "Humour Helps" an actres hamfistedly tries
to commit suicide, finally achieving her aim with the unwitting aid
of a neighbour. "Waiting for a Bus" has a pair of lovers
interrupted in bed by the arrival of the husband - or are they
actors rehearsing a new comedy "Waiting for a bus" about a pair of
lovers disturbed by the husband's arrival? "Acting Exercise" opens
with Rowan, an actor delivering a soliloquy in a rehearsal room.
From the shadows emerges a distraught husband demanding the actor
give him back his wife. In "Last Things" an elderly couple of
thespians awake to find themselves dead. They decide to go on to
the next world with their famous husband and wife sketch - to the
applause of the heavenly host.
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