Bøger udgivet af Samuel French Ltd

Three people have come to visit the grave of Michael, who has died of a heartattack in his early 40s. There's Maureen, his wife of nearly 20 years, whomhe helped through a breakdown that followed the death of their infant son.There's Anna, his lover, with whom he secretly lived while working in Londonduring the week. And there's Bob, a friend and father-figure to Michael, whotends the graveyard and harbours his own deep feelings of grief. All threeloved Michael; all three have reason to mourn, but the secrets that existbetween them impede the comfort they might otherwise draw from eachother. This one-act play for two women and one man reflects poignantly onlove, loss, and beginning again.

"I make myself remember. I am afraid of forgetting. I will have to forget if Iwant to go on living."California, 1962. College professor George is grieving the death of his long-termpartner Jim. As a middle-aged gay Englishman living in the Los Angelessuburbs, he is an outsider in every way. Haunted by his past and unable tomove forward, we follow him on one very ordinary day. But for George, this isgoing to be a day like no other...A Single Man features in the Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English,where it is described as 'a work of compressed brilliance.' Known to manythrough Tom Ford's film, Christopher Isherwood's masterpiece is now givena wry and compassionate retelling in Simon Reade's new adaptation for thestage.Powerful and sexy, A Single Man is a darkly amusing study of grief, love andloneliness from the celebrated writer of Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration forCabaret.

G.O.D. (Good. Orderly. Direction.), guidance from a higher power, whatever helps you stay in active recovery from this day to the next. One day at a time.But what if it all starts to unravel? In the place you feel most protected. Recovery isn't a straight line, it's an elastic band. Which can snap back at anymoment. Six people, all trying to take their lives back. Working through pain. Working through life. All they can do is, keep coming back. G.O.D. (Good. Orderly. Direction.) is a raw, visceral new play about the struggles, uncertainty and monotony of recovery.

Ireland, 2048. Edel and Liam have been married for 37 years. They live in a small, isolated farmhouse at the foot of a mountain. The world is ending and we meet them in their final hour of life before everything is wiped out entirely.Their children have grown up and moved away and now they live together, alone. They take drugs, say goodbye to old friends and former lovers, air old grievances, argue, bicker and ultimately, try to reconcile their relationship.They will do this until the end of time. Flanked by his fellow Goons and bolstered by the efforts of irrepressible sound assistant Janet, Spike takes a flourishing nosedive off the cliffs of respectability and mashes up his haunted past to create the comedy of the future. His war with Hitler may be over, but his war with Auntie Beeb - and ultimately himself - has just begun. Will Spike's dogged obsession with finding the funny elevate The Goons to soaring new heights, or will the whole thing come crashing down with the stroke of a potato peeler?

'They'll be digging us out of the turf in two hundred-years. Trying to figure out why three women in their sixties were camping in Donegal.''Newly widowed Kate, childminder-in-chief Roisin and their best friend Oonagh have decided enough is enough. Life is too short, they're going tofollow in their children's footsteps and take a Gap Year. Thailand? Europe? Down Under? No, they're visiting every county in Ireland, sure there's a fewthey've never even heard of! It's time for castles, co ee and craic as three women in their 60s go on the adventure of a lifetime.This play is about new beginnings; that it's never too late to start again and the power of female friendship.

Ever thought you should run the world, even though you're 'only fourteen and a girl'?Priya and Lou have. And they're ready to bite back against any adult who doubts them. Armed with a backpack full of Pop-Tarts and a hunger to tackle climate change, they embark on a covert expedition into the wild. But when the wilderness closes in around them, can Lou and Priya overcome their differences to make their voices heard?SHEWOLVES is an uplifting, funny and empowering play about forging friendships when you're a bit weird, the power of hope and the underestimated smartness of teens.

At the country house of Sir Percy Jobling, an amateur cabaret show is being given to raise funds for the new local Institute. During the entertainment the money collected from the sale of the tickets disappears. Ada Weeks, provisional wardrobe mistress, is suspected of the theft, but refuses to be searched. The the money turns up elsewhere and we learn the reason forAda's refusal. She has half a chicken and a pint bottle of champagne concealed on her.

Julie sells ice cream on the cliffs at Beachy Head and searches for love online. Her friend Bernard walks the clifftops and can't seem to settle.When sixteen-year old Skye arrives for the summer, the lives of all three become unexpectedly entangled and they are confronted with the ghosts of the past.Tabitha Mortiboy's magical play tells of love, loss and midnight ice-cream sundaes under the starlit skies of the South Downs.

London, 2013. Anya, a young Romanian woman, has been in London for several months struggling to improve her English and finds a job as a musicteacher. She moves in with her black British boyfriend Wes, and together they are trying to hold on to Anya's dream of being a music teacher and Wes'dream of succeeding as a jazz musician. This is their story and of the people they meet, all connected by tragedy to varying degrees. Everyone will bechanged for ever by the events they live through.City Melodies themes concern the fragmented sense of home and the impermanence of life as explored through the experiences of first and secondgeneration immigrants to London. Other themes include the negative repercussions of putting people into boxes based on a prejudiced responseto the unknown. Finally, the theme of persevering despite adversity and pursuing your dream is also explored.The play is composed of a series of interlocking monologues, straight to audience address sections and traditional duologue scenes.

Safe House is set in the present in an undisclosed part of England. Tommy is a policeman who comes face to face with Kelly, a young man whose crime and painful situation stirs up his past. As Tommy interrogates Kelly he is forced to face the ghost that still looms large in his life, making him fear there may be something monstrous inside him too. Tommy must confront his demons or they will destroy his relationships with his wife, Alex, sister, Steph, and especially his stepdaughter, Hannah.

It's 1983, the evening before Dr. Sally Ride's historic space flight. Hundreds of miles from the launch, a group of women with passionate opinions and noopportunities sit on a sweltering St. Louis rooftop watching life pass them by. Their uncharted desires bump up against American norms of sex and power in this intimate snapshot of queer anti-heroines.

The impecunious owner of a haunted Scottish castle has to juggle the advances of an American heiress who wishes to buy him out, the love of his longtime assistant who wants to marry him, and a Coal Board official who wishes to commandeer the estate. The British National Coal Board wants to annex the owner's castle as a group home for local miners and their families. Wealthy, much-married American Mrs. Clodfelter Dunne wants to claim the castle - and its owner, the Earl of Locharne - for herself. Meanwhile, eccentric boarder Miss Nicholson is obsessed with the idea that the Earl is actually the rightful King of Scotland.

Shakespeare's characters are real...The RSC is a branch of the government (a bit like MI6 but with better costumes)Iago is trying to destroy the world...And mankind's last hope is a travel agent called Martin.Dive into a most lamentable, epic, comic, romantic tragic comedy in a world where Shakespeare's heroes and villains have been waging a secret war, after being inexplicably being brought to life over 400 years ago. If the rules of theatre are broken, it will bring about the end of the world. It all hinges on a prophecy about The Last Descendant, who has no idea about any of this until the night he meets a girl at a party...

Following the success of their collaboration on Robin Hood, David Wood andDave and Toni Arthur wrote Jack the Lad, a musical celebration of Jack, theubiquitous hero or everyman of English legend, myth and folklore - fromLittle Jack Horner, through Jack and the Beanstalk to Spring Heeled Jack, theTerror of London.The setting is a gypsy encampment, where a series of Jack tales and songsare performed by the gypsies to celebrate the 80th birthday of their seniormember - affectionately known as Jack the Lad. The play, therefore,depicts contemporary gypsy life, as well as traditional gypsy customs andsuperstitions, and is a delightful amalgam of the traditional arts of storytelling,singing and dancing, with a mumming play, a shadow-mime andpuppetry also employed within the main framework.

It's 2015, seventeen years after family matriarch Peggy tripped over G.W.'s wooden legs in Sordid Lives, and life has moved into the present for the residents of Winters, Texas. In the wake of the Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality, the Sordid saga continues. An anniversary memorial service is being planned in honor of Peggy at the bar while the Southside Baptist Church is planning an "Anti-Equality Rally" to protest the advancement of same-sex marriage. Both events are to take place on the samenight, so the beloved cast of colorful characters are all on a collision course for shenanigans and fireworks at the church and everyone's favorite bar on the big night. Along the way a bisexual serial killer shows up, a drag queen country medley gets performed and a beauty salon versus the bigots, turns getting your hair done into the front lines of the equality battle. Friendships are tested and families are reunited as fear and bigotry are confronted with acceptance and understanding on the way to a surprise wedding with (almost) everyone in attendance.

Tony Dawson, a greeting card writer, has lost his wife, Margo, because he speaks in couplets on the wrong occasions. She plans to marry her boss, a breakfast food tycoon. Tony, in a last ditch attempt to win her back, offers to throw a "no hard feelings" engagement party. His plans are complicated by the arrival of a friend who is a perpetual student, the nightclub singer for whom he is writing special material, and his editor who stops by just before the party to collect his monthly greeting card output. Irv is wearing a towel on his way to the shower, Coral gets her dress ripped off, and the editor in the go-go outfit is stashed in the closet that Tony pretends is a darkroom. Add to this a nightclub full of little waiters, a ghastly television show on which Tony accidentally pans Sagamore''s breakfast cereal, and all manner of people being shoved behind screens, out into halls, into closets and shower stalls, and you have one of the wackiest farces ever seen on a stage.

Three career girls who share an apartment make an agreement that one night a week two must clear out, leaving the third one free to cook dinner for her boyfriend. Maudie doesn't have a boyfriend, but pride prompts her to invent one. She borrows clothes from the male tenant upstairs to provide circumstantial evidence. The evidence proves too circumstantial for comfort, and the arrival of the wife from upstairs precipitates a crisis.

This impious comedy is about a family of well-to-do crooks who are shocked when the son, an excellent forger, quits the fold to go straight. The reason is not long hidden: he has met a girl. He takes a job in a bank (his forged references are excellent). The family makes every eff ort to get him back into his ancestral profession, to no avail, until it is discovered that his fiancée, the daughter of a Scotland Yard inspector, is a first-class safe-breaker. The white sheep is happy to reenter th

The story of the development of a humorless young Scotchman whose great political success is due entirely to his wife. A young and very earnest Scotch youth steals into the home of well-to-do people in order to get books to help him get on in the world. He is caught in the act and makes an agreement with the family whereby they are to support him until he gets his start. In return for this, he is to marry the very plain daughter of the family. He sticks to his promise, and the woman makes him a success. In the end he comes to realize the great charm and remarkable ability of the girl who has helped him.

In Darkest America contains the plays The Eclipse and Tone Clusters. The Eclipse: A middle aged professor lives with her ailing mother. The old lady, once a brilliant teacher, moves in and out of reality, has a fantasy Latin lover, and makes her daughter's life miserable. One night she whirls in a torrid dance with her lover while her daughter sleeps; death has released both from suffering. This haunting play by one of America's foremost authors was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Humana Festival and was subsequently produced Off Broadway. Tone Clusters: Frank and Emily are a nice couple with a house in a nice neighborhood. Why are they under so much strain? They are interviewed by an unseen interrogator and their story emerges: the body of a 14 year old girl was found in their basement and their son is charged with the murder. Do they share in the guilt? Could we find ourselves in their situation?

The Polden Players have just left the stage after performing in a local drama festival. The production was a disaster and there is plenty of wit and repartee as sparks fly while they vent their feelings about the performance. It is apparent that each is using the theatre to escape from a humdrum life. When the Adjudicator arrives, they are surprised to get their just desserts.|3 women, 4 men

Joan has been hired to stabilize Jojomon, a yoga apparel giant, after its CEO is brought down by a fat-shaming scandal. But just as she finds her stride, more trouble surfaces and sales plummet. Joan comes up with a plan so risky that it could make or break the company and her career-and what it requires from her CFO, Raj, is far beyond the call of duty. This sharp comedy asks what it takes to find your own authenticity in a world determined to sell enlightenment.