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Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior This
boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over
two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo
Theatre production. Bernard is planing a weekend with his chic
Parisian mistress in a French farmhouse. He has arranged for a
cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, is packing his wife
Jacqueline off to her mother's, and has even invited his best
friend to provide the alibi. It's foolproof; what could possibly go
wrong? Suppose Robert turns up not knowing why he has been invited?
Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? What happens if
the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the mistress is unable to
cook? An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and
Robert improvise at breakneck speed. "Hurtling along at the speed
of light, [this] breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of
theatrical invention." Guardian. "Nifty." London Sunday Times
Does God really exist? Are science and religion incompatible
bedfellows? Charles Darwin shook philosophy to its foundations with
his theory of evolution, yet strangely, he himself refrained from
commenting in depth about the religious implications for fear of
adding to the furor. But suppose that he did in fact write down his
conclusions as a secret addendum to his seminal work, Origin of
Species. And suppose his beloved wife, Emma, who kept her own
secret journal, was the only other person to know of this hidden
postscript. The novel Survival of the Fittest is the modern day
story of the search for these two hugely significant works. An
eccentric London antiquarian book dealer is hired by an equally
eccentric American billionaire to track down the documents for his
world famous collection of original manuscripts. The complex
investigation ranges across England, from historic towns and
stately piles to prisons and Darwin homes, and involves a series of
encounters ranging from the criminal to the romantic and the
revelatory. Along the way, it explores the spiritual struggle
within the extraordinary Darwin household, and the effects of that
same struggle on the creators of the atom bomb and on modern
terrorists. This dramatic investigation of man's spiritual dilemma
occupies the spaces between authors Dan Brown and Richard Dawkins.
Robin Hawdon is one of Britain's most prolific playwrights. His
plays have been seen in over forty countries. At any one moment
there may be over a dozen productions running across the USA,
Europe, and elsewhere. This is his third novel. Publisher's
website: http: //sbpra.com/RobinHawdon Author's website: http:
//www.robinhawdon.com
Diana has it all. Beautiful, intelligent, sweet natured. The sort
of rare girl that all men swoon over. What's more she is the
daughter of that most reviled of species, a wealthy banker. The
three men in her life are Jamie, the much envied man to whom she is
officially betrothed; Tom, the attractive boyfriend of Jamie's
sister; and Geoff, the oldest friend who is to be best man. Diana's
insurmountable problem is that, during the course of the longest
weekend of her life, she finds herself having promised marriage to
all three! How can she decide? What matters most - familiarity,
suitability, sexual passion? Can she make up her mind in time for
the big society wedding arranged in a month's time? Bewildered
banker's wife, Ann, finds herself having to act as negotiator,
counselor, traffic controller, legal adviser, judge, jury, and
fortune teller to an entire household of distraught people. And it
isn't discovered until the final curtain who it is that Diana
chooses.
Comedy Characters: 2 male, 4 female Interior Set A man wakes up in
the bridal suite on his wedding morning to find an extremely
attractive naked girl in bed beside him. In the depths of a stag
night hangover, he can't even remember meeting her. Before he can
get her out, his bride to be arrives to dress for the wedding and,
in the ensuing panic, the girl is locked in the bathroom. The best
man is persuaded to claim her, but he gets confused and introduces
the chamber maid to the bride as his date. The crisis escalates to
nuclear levels by the time the mother of the bride and the best
man's actual girlfriend arrive. This rare combination of riotous
farce and touching love story has provoked waves of laughter across
Europe and America. "Laughs abound." -Wisconsin Advocate "The full
house audience roared with delight." - Green Bay Gazette "The
audience is left aching with laughter...A crazy, wonderful
evening." -Bonn Schaufenster "Splendid...Met with lengthy applause
and shouts of approval." -Vienna Donnerstag "Every cue is spot on,
every joke a winner." -Cologne Express
Comedy / Characters: 5 male, 2 female
Scenery: Interior
Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living
in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis.
Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair
with Gerry and set his sidekicks on them? Will he discover that he
is owed money that was borrowed from the club's till, gambled and
lost on the club's roulette table and then stolen from the day's
take? Will Gerry be discovered hiding in Mandy's bathroom? Will
Terry be caught delivering dinner? Will Terry reveal that he is
really Gerry and that Gerry is Terry? Will anyone figure out what
is going on, and will they all survive until the curtain comes
down? The action doesn't slow down from beginning to end in this
madcap comedy by the author of Don't Dress for Dinner and Perfect
Wedding
"Packed with high-energy and mad comedy that rarely takes a
breath until its side-splitting conclusion.''-Door County
Advocate
"Produces big surprises that delight and astonish. It is
'Sopranos' with laughing gas.''-Green Bay Press
Now updated, here is a sparkling and hilarious remake of the comedy
that has played around the world since its two-year run in London's
West End in the 70s. Set in a smart, ultra-modern Mayfair apartment
full of automated furniture and gadgets with minds of their own,
The Mating Game features a celebrity television personality with a
reputation as a great stud, but whose romantic interludes are, in
reality, always interrupted by accidents, fate, or his own
incompetence.
Geoff Tippet has arranged a special birthday treat for his old
friend, Bob. The treat is a hotel room for the night, a double-bed
which folds up into the wall and an attractive girl called Mimi.
Add a shy Kate who anxiously awaits her computer agency date -
Dick, who has been shown into the wrong room; Bob's wife Liz, who
believes she is dining with Geoff, and a connecting door between
the two rooms and you have the recipe for a fast-moving and
hilarious comedy.2 women, 3 men
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