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This is the story of Penelope Keeling and her family and the
passion and heartbreak that have held them together for three
generations. The location of the play moves between time and place
beginning with Penelope's return to her Cotswold home from hospital
in the present day. The story continues through the advent of three
children and Penelope's desertion by her husband, with the pull of
Cornwall ever present.5 women, 5 men, 2 women or men
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Off The Rails (Paperback)
Sidney Gilliat; As told to Terence Brady
bundle available
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R307
Discovery Miles 3 070
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Did you ever wonder what would happen if you discovered that your
dog could talk? Or maybe even sing? As well? Struggling actor
Stephen McCann, finding himself picked up by a hairy stray in the
local supermarket, also discovers his new four-footed friend while
not capable of lucid speech is incredibly and amazingly able to
sing - and not only sing well but in tune, too - which all seems
more than a little odd to Stephen, but then so too is the simply
drop dead and beautiful Estelle, a young woman who enters his life
coincidentally enough the same time as the strangely talented dog
does. Are the two events connected? And how come Stephen - a
connoisseur of beautiful girls - has never noticed that Estelle and
her somewhat odd flat mate have been living across the hall from
him since it would seem time immemorial? All is revealed as McCann
finds himself involved in a moment of time that could indeed change
the very shape of the entire planet....
Crossing The Line When the factory opened in 1981, hopes were high
that John Delorean's revolutionary gull-wing the sports car would
create a much needed industry boost for Northern Ireland, the
troubled province being the centre of a new and ever more violent
breakout of The Troubles. The 660,000 square foot site chosen by
DeLorean on which to purpose build his factory sat in a bog on the
outskirts of the troubled towns of Dunmurry and Twinbrook. Building
began in October 1978 and was completed only 16 months later.
Hundreds of workers were employed there as the government offered
John DeLorean financial incentives to build his dream car on the
outskirts of Belfast and the resulting gull-wing sports car the
maverick manufacturer and designer chose to build there on British
taxpayers' money became both famous as well as notorious, the
sports car appearing in movies, video games, and television shows
and was immortalised in the cult movie Back to The Future - despite
the terrible and troubled history of the company that built it.
Manufacture of the DeLorean car started in 1981, but fewer than
9,000 cars were produced for the American market but these cars
were so badly designed and built that the company collapsed a year
after the plant had been opened. Seven of the men who helped build
this car signed their names on one of the last gull wing doors made
under the inscription 'The end of a dream - or is it?' - seemingly
in the faint hope that despite the Troubles in Northern Ireland
there might still be hope for a better and more settled future, a
future they had initially been assured would not only benefit them,
but their families, community and their country. Most remarkably,
since the closure of Harland and Woolf, the great shipyard in
Belfast, this was the first time Catholics and Protestants had
worked side by side in the North or Ireland, which they did
peacefully and amicably - until the fateful moment that Bobby Sands
died as a result of his hunger strike and with his death came a
fresh and terrible outbreak of violence and with it an end to the
hopes and dreams of the work force. This play tells that story
through the eyes of the workers, the owners and the management of
the factory, and the British who saw a chance to take political
advantage of the troubled province. It is also a modern day Romeo
and Juliet story for at its heart lies the doomed and blighted
romance of a young Catholic girl and her Protestant boy-friend.
You've seen PYGMALION? Or MY FAIR LADY perhaps? And if so, did you
think there were a few questions left unanswered? Shaw did and
supplied some answers to many of these questions in subsequent
writings yet the question that begged most for an answer he left
well up in the air. So here's a possible answer to that particular
question and it's but no that might spoil your enjoyment. So why
not just sit back and see what might have happened or maybe even
did happen BELOW STAIRS........
Philip Bartels, an old friend of Peter Harding's, calls him out of
the blue for advice about his marriage, a call that unwittingly
sets them both out on a fateful journey, for the shy and
respectable Philip - Barty to his friends - has met and fallen in
love with the tempestuous Lorna but finds himself unable to leave
his dull but loving wife. Peter offers some advice but after he too
has met the passionate Lorna he also finds himself in love and
begins to manipulate events in order to satisfy his own desires,
finally with devastating and fateful results. The play is based on
one of thriller writer John Bingham's masterpieces, FIVE
ROUNDABOUTS TO HEAVEN, an enormously exciting story of crime and
passion which according to John Le Carre should be recognised as
one of the last centuries great psychological thrillers.
It is early days in the Creation when Adam, previously all alone in
the new world except for the company of the animals, to his
complete shock finds himself gifted a new companion, Eve. With her
arrival conflict enters the Garden of Eden as the world's first
couple discover in each other a source of continual irritation. But
gradually through the delightful innocence and patience of the
persistent and inquisitive Eve they grow from adversaries into
eventual loving partners. Based on The Diaries of Adam and Eve by
Mark Twain, the original work is one of Mark Twain's greatest
displays of wit and wisdom and is a completely all-pervading vision
into the always fascinating relationship between man and woman and
indeed the very origin of our species
Four friends gather regularly to play Bridge, a habit formed over
the years, but sadly one of their number, Isobel, has been recently
widowed and her oldest friend Vic is taking steps to try and
rehabilitate the still grief struck Isobel against the counsel of
her husband Jimmy who deems it all too early. Vic persists and when
the play opens it is the first time Isobel has ventured out let
alone sat at a cards table since losing her husband. But now there
is a new face in the game, Hugh, who just happens to have known
Isobel in her youth. Hugh is recently married to the seemingly
quiet and well-ordered Mary, who turns out to be someone with quite
a different agenda altogether, and as with Mary's help Isobel
begins to find her emotional feet once more, the god of Disorder
takes charge and mayhem emotional and physical ensues before chaos
is banished and peace and normality return to everyone's lives as
the cards are picked up once more as the game of life moves on.
Although set around a bridge game, the play is nothing to do with
the game itself but is about the characters who meet to play who
have all known each other as it emerges for most of their lives.
Far from being about cards the play is about love, friendship,
loss, redemption and rehabilitation. For audience and cast alike it
requires absolutely no knowledge of bridge at all, only an interest
in humanity and how we all try and cope with the hardest hand of
all to play - the loss of a loved one.
This was the only novel written by the famous British screenwriter,
director and producer, SIDNEY GILLIAT. Originally titled CATCH AS
CATCH CAN, the book was unfinished and unedited at the time of his
death although plans were being made for its publication on
completion. It was recently edited and completed at the invitation
of SIDNEY GILLIAT'S daughter, the writer JOANNA RUSSELL, by the
novelist and playwright TERENCE BRADY. The title was also recently
altered to OFF THE RAILS to prevent confusion with similarly
entitled works.
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