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Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, the play portrays the downfall of an ambitious young criminal in Brighton, alongside the luckless waitress Rose.
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Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, the play portrays the downfall of an ambitious young criminal in Brighton, alongside the luckless waitress Rose.
In a South London studio, a father spends sixteen years carving a large stone statue of God while his son repeatedly fails to connect with him and tries to form relationships with women who visit the studio.
In a one-room studio apartment, each doorbell brings a new character into an escalating farce. Masterman, a fake charity collector, discovers a woman’s body hidden in a fold-down bed; an investigator, police officers, neighbors, and a second fraudster complicate the cover-up until contradictory identities and stories unravel.
Malcolm Williamson’s first full-scale opera adapts Graham Greene’s 1958 novel Our Man in Havana. Sidney Gilliat wrote the libretto for this three-act English-language work.
In a two-act comedy, Mary Rhodes has an affair with Clive Root, a bookseller friend of her husband Victor; the action moves between the Rhodes home and an Amsterdam guesthouse.
In wartime and postwar London, Sarah promises to end her affair with Maurice if he survives a bombing. When he does, she turns to religion, while Maurice resents her conversion and later hires a detective to investigate her after she returns to her husband, Henry.
The play consists of two acts, each of two scenes and is set entirely in the living room of Rose Pemberton and her two elderly aunts who live with the aunts' brother James, a disabled Roman Catholic priest. The aunts have a long-running fear of death in the house, with any bedroom being locked away from further use following a death of its resident family member. The story revolves around the introduction of Rose's new lover, Michael Dennis, to the family. It later transpires that Michael is married when his suicidal wife arrives at the house.
As the Callifer family patriarch lies dying, his estranged son James returns, unable to remember a mysterious event in the family potting shed when he was fourteen. With a psychoanalyst’s help, James tries to recover the memory that left him alienated from his father and family.
Presumed killed in the Boer War, burglar and cricketer A. J. Raffles returns to London and reunites with Bunny Manders. With Lord Alfred Douglas, they plan to rob the Marquess of Queensberry, whose treatment of Oscar Wilde motivates their revenge; an unexpected theft of the Prince of Wales’s letters complicates the scheme.
Travels with My Aunt is a 1989 comedy adapted by Scottish dramatist by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same title. The play was first staged at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow on 10 November 1989 with Havergal, Derwent Watson, Patrick Hannaway, and Christopher Gee, and has been performed in London West End theatres, off-Broadway in New York, and in San Francisco. From 2 May to 29 June 2013, Travels with My Aunt was staged at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, starring David Bamber and Jonathan Hyde. This stage version was reduced to a 50-minute, one-act version (with permission from Havergal) and first presented by the Backwell Playhouse Theatre Company as an entry into the Avon Association of Drama One Act Festival on 21 February 2015. The two-act version was revived at the Citizens Theatre in May 2017.
A fictional director discusses a play script with an actor who answers only “Yes” or “No.” The one-act dialogue grew from Greene’s observations of director John Gielgud and actor Ralph Richardson rehearsing The Complaisant Lover.
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, the play portrays the downfall of an ambitious young criminal in Brighton, alongside the luckless waitress Rose.
In a South London studio, a father spends sixteen years carving a large stone statue of God while his son repeatedly fails to connect with him and tries to form relationships with women who visit the studio.
In a one-room studio apartment, each doorbell brings a new character into an escalating farce. Masterman, a fake charity collector, discovers a woman’s body hidden in a fold-down bed; an investigator, police officers, neighbors, and a second fraudster complicate the cover-up until contradictory identities and stories unravel.
Malcolm Williamson’s first full-scale opera adapts Graham Greene’s 1958 novel Our Man in Havana. Sidney Gilliat wrote the libretto for this three-act English-language work.
In a two-act comedy, Mary Rhodes has an affair with Clive Root, a bookseller friend of her husband Victor; the action moves between the Rhodes home and an Amsterdam guesthouse.
In wartime and postwar London, Sarah promises to end her affair with Maurice if he survives a bombing. When he does, she turns to religion, while Maurice resents her conversion and later hires a detective to investigate her after she returns to her husband, Henry.
The play consists of two acts, each of two scenes and is set entirely in the living room of Rose Pemberton and her two elderly aunts who live with the aunts' brother James, a disabled Roman Catholic priest. The aunts have a long-running fear of death in the house, with any bedroom being locked away from further use following a death of its resident family member. The story revolves around the introduction of Rose's new lover, Michael Dennis, to the family. It later transpires that Michael is married when his suicidal wife arrives at the house.
As the Callifer family patriarch lies dying, his estranged son James returns, unable to remember a mysterious event in the family potting shed when he was fourteen. With a psychoanalyst’s help, James tries to recover the memory that left him alienated from his father and family.
Presumed killed in the Boer War, burglar and cricketer A. J. Raffles returns to London and reunites with Bunny Manders. With Lord Alfred Douglas, they plan to rob the Marquess of Queensberry, whose treatment of Oscar Wilde motivates their revenge; an unexpected theft of the Prince of Wales’s letters complicates the scheme.
Travels with My Aunt is a 1989 comedy adapted by Scottish dramatist by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same title. The play was first staged at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow on 10 November 1989 with Havergal, Derwent Watson, Patrick Hannaway, and Christopher Gee, and has been performed in London West End theatres, off-Broadway in New York, and in San Francisco. From 2 May to 29 June 2013, Travels with My Aunt was staged at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, starring David Bamber and Jonathan Hyde. This stage version was reduced to a 50-minute, one-act version (with permission from Havergal) and first presented by the Backwell Playhouse Theatre Company as an entry into the Avon Association of Drama One Act Festival on 21 February 2015. The two-act version was revived at the Citizens Theatre in May 2017.
A fictional director discusses a play script with an actor who answers only “Yes” or “No.” The one-act dialogue grew from Greene’s observations of director John Gielgud and actor Ralph Richardson rehearsing The Complaisant Lover.