By Robert Harling: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w Directed By: Tracy Quigley All the ladies who are “anybody” in Chinquapin, Louisiana come to Truvy’s beauty salon to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), […]
By Charles Dickens & Jonathan Holloway: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m, 11 Others. Directed By: Melanie Mitchell Nicholas Nickleby is newly employed as a teacher at Dotheboys’ Hall in Yorkshire thanks to his manipulative and avaricious uncle Ralph, a businessman. There he witnesses the cruel treatment of boys
By Aaron Sorkin: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 14m Directed By: Dave Cornes In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out-of-work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they’re back, live on stage… only for them, it really has to be
By Aaron Sorkin: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 14m Directed By: Richard Hitchcock This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games
By David Tristram: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 7m, 1any gender (adult) Directed By: June Brechin No-one could have foreseen the strange events that took place one dark evening at the home of Mrs Gagarin. We see her taking a stroll. Next she screams, “Who is it? Oh, it’s
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By Noël Coward: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 2m Directed By: The Cast A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late
By Ronald Harwood: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 4m Directed By: Ian Pratley “Sir, the last of the great, but dying, breed of English actor-managers, is in a very bad way tonight. As his dresser tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear, Sir
By Phil Olsen: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w Directed By: Jake Gillespie Five women get together for their birthdays, each with her own story, to drink, celebrate, commiserate and support each other as they negotiate through marriage, work, divorce, birth and kids, while solving the problems of the
When Andy Dufresne is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in the notorious Shawshank prison, he must find a way to keep himself and his hope alive by using his wits and forging friendships. Based on the novella by Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption brings the story of resilience made famous by the acclaimed film to
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Lady Chatterley, the former Constance Reid, Is a young married woman, whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury. This leads Constance to have an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights The central theme and reenforced Constance’s realisation
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