Savoury meringue and other plays (Amber Lane plays)

James Saunders

Amber Lane Press Ltd.

Dreams and deconstructions: Alternative theatre in Britain (20th Century Theatre & Music)

Literature & Fiction

Sandy Craig

Dramas & Plays

Strange Fruit (Plays)

PHILLIPS, Caryl

Speech therapist James Leeds tries to persuade Sarah Norman, who is deaf, to learn to speak and lip-read. But it is Sarah who teaches James the beauty and subtlety of her sign-language and shows him that she has a right to an independent existence that defies the norms and expectations of the hearing world.Winner of the Antoinette Perry (Tony) award for Best Play of the 1979-80 Broadway Season' and The Society of West End Theatre Awards for The Play of the Year 1981'. (Cast 3m, 4f)

Children of a Lesser God

MEDOFF, MARK

Summit Conference is set in the Berlin Chancellery in 1941. The play charts a fictitious encounter between Eva Braun and Clara Petacci, who gradually begin to take on the convictions, and to a certain extent the personalities, of their respective lovers, Hitler and Mussolini, who are at that moment engaged in carving up the map of Europe in an adjoining conference room. The timely appearance of a young soldier-orderly gives the women an ideal opportunity to put their theories into gruesome practice.

Summit Conference

MacDonald, Robert

Inner Voices (Play)

Eduardo De Filippo

Starring: Rosalind Ayres, Martin Jarvis, and Julian Sands 112 Minutes on 2 CDs Actual events during the Cold War inspired this thriller that takes place in a suburb of London during the autumn and winter of 1960-1961. Loyalty, duty and friendship collide when the Jacksons slowly discover the Krogers, their neighbors and cherished friends, are not what they appear. A gripping play that may leave you wondering what it is those nice people next door are really up to.

Pack of lies (Plays)

Hugh Whitemore

Following the success of the play Stepping Out, Richard Harris has combined the talents of lyricist Mary Stewart-David and composer Denis King to create a heart-warming, toe-tapping new musical following the familiar story of the lives, loves and laughs of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap class in a dingy church hall.

Stepping Out (Plays)

HARRIS, RICHARD

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship and by Molina’s obsession with the fantasy and romance of the movies.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (the play)

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Literary

Drama / 7m, 2f / Unit set 
Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called Enigma, enabling allied forces to foresee German maneuvers. Since his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code the taboo against homosexuality. Turing, who was also the first to conceive of computers, was convicted of the criminal act of homosexuality and sentenced to undergo hormone treatments which left him physically and mentally debilitated. He died a suicide, forgotten and alone. This play is about who he was, what happened to him and why. 
"Powerful, rivetting drama." N.Y. Daily News 
"Elegant and poignant." Time Magazine 
"The most important serious play of the season." Christian Science Monitor

Breaking the code

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