The play ‘The Dear Departed’ by Stanley Houghton is a story that depicts the sad reality of the modern nuclear families that are strained with selfish interests and individual desires.
Category: Comedy
1962
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Love’s A Luxury
A theatre producer and an actor try and have a quiet week in a country cottage. Their efforts are thwarted by the arrival of a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters!
(W.) Leslie Young
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See How They Run
So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race.
1957
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Sunday Costs Five Pesos
The scene is a housed-in square in the town of Four Cornstalks in Northern Mexico. The time – early one sunny Sunday afternoon. The is the present.
(W.) Leslie Young
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The Happy Marriage
Set on a roof garden on a day in the summer of 1952, the play tells the story of Helen and Henry Mansell-Smith who have been happily married for 11 years – but things start to fall apart.
(W.) Leslie Young
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Love In A Mist
Two couples – one married, one not – are touring Ireland in the 1950’s when they find themselves lost. Fortunately both couples find a very unusual bed-and-breakfast.
(W.) Leslie Young
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Relative Values
A comedy of manners in which an American movie actress is preparing to wed a British earl. Smack in the middle of a sedate dinner in the English mansion comes Miranda’s former flame.
1953
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When We Are Married
Three Yorkshire couples who are about to celebrate their 25th Wedding Anniversaries, only to find out that their marriage vows may have been invalidated by the officiating vicar.
1952
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Travellers’ Joy
Mrs “Bumble” Pelham is visiting Stockholm. When her return to England is unexpected delayed she spends her traveller’s allowance all too quickly and cannot pay her hotel bill.
(W.) Leslie Young
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The Poltergeist
An English country house is plagued by a poltergeist who destroys things in the home, rearranges picturesl, and possesses the daughter of the owner.
1950
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The Chiltern Hundreds
Lord Pym is standing as Conservative candidate at Lister Castle. When he loses the seat to the Labour candidate the household becomes at odds with one another.
1950
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Fools Rush In
On her wedding morning Pam is so appalled at the gravity of the promises she must make that she refuses to be married to Joe. Her doubts increase on meeting her father, Paul.