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David Campton
This play was written to be performed by a company of almost any size, of any age and of either sex. Two parties enter, A and B, from East and…
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For a brief while in an old house, time merges across four centuries. The Wise Woman, from Tudor times, is expecting a Customer who wishes to make use of her…
The parcel is old, silent, almost immobile Grandma who is passed from one relative to another. They care for her from pure charity. Her house is gone, her beloved piano…
Julia Gibbon, a junior minister, is thrown into turmoil by the conflict between private and public morality. Her affair with Penelope Wright, a frank and forthright journalist, very much a…
The well-known fairies from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Peter Pan are under continuous attack from the hazard of waste brought by humans. Unexpectedly they stumble on a copse which…
A large jeering crowd appears on stage. A Narrator tries to analyse why ordinary people can suddenly be turned into an ugly mob. He describes a series of everyday events…
Seemingly lost without a compass, the six members of the group stumble across a large country house. Taking refuge, they find one room with a roaring fire. Truepenny explores, finding…
The Weerd sisters try to make ends meet through fortune-telling. When Lady M calls, Flora discovers she indeed has the gift of foresight, although she does not like what she…
This bewitching little play centers on the animosity between two siblings and Mrs. Meadowsweet’s solution to their constant quarrelling and bickering. Mrs. Meadowsweet and her homely guest house, Respite, seem…
Outwardly respectable Mrs Bee does good work on the Committee of the Bountiful Bequest, a charity for distressed females. However, unbeknown to the other Committee members, she is financing the…
With the best of all possible motives, needless to say, Winifred and Una come to sort through Aunty Dorothy’s things after the funeral, and they find that they have been…
In thirty years Grandmamma has not allowed any man to enter her house, forcing seclusion on Mamma and her twin girls. A young man comes into their lives and Grandmamma…
Four servants sit solemnly in the kitchen of a large Victorian house. Their Mistress has died suddenly and the cook, discovering that the housekeeper and personal maid have stolen some…
Two ladies living next door to each other share a love of plants, but not of friendship. Mrs Roberts, Everybody’s Friend (and busy-body), tries to reconcile the two ladies who…
As he tidies up an empty stage, the Sweeper is tempted to experiment with the magic power of the theatre–to create life through the exercise of imagination. After a few…
Everyone has their dream, and this is no exception for the six mice living in the loft. Their dreams are conjured up by music as each hears a different tune…
Him and Her courted back in the 1940s, but lost contact for thirty years. Reunited as members of the Evergreens Club for the elderly, they must re-learn to accept their…
The characters await death, having been sentenced for witchcraft. It is the late 1600s or early 1700s. Only the Calm Woman remains unmoved. On being questioned, she replies she will…
