She Stoops to Conquer takes a comedic, often farcical, look at the behaviour and marital expectations of the upper classes in 18th century England.
Category: Jan Stevenson
The Ghost Train
A ghostly driver, sudden deaths and a travelling parrot make this 1920s thriller an unnervingly hilarious exploration of our capacity for belief in the supernatural.
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.
Pride and Prejudice
A husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet’s most urgent priority. With four sisters, a match-making mother, and a string of unsuitable suitors, it’s difficult to escape the subject.
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
Lord Arthur Savile’s is engaged to lovely Sybil Merton. Her pet chiromantist Podgers has read Lord Arthur’s palm and foretold he would commit a murder…
And Then There Were None
Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on a remote island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear.
The Importance of Being Earnest
John Worthing escapes the burdens of responsibility to have an exciting life in the city, pretending to be his fictitious younger brother Ernest.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Victorian-era detective Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, are called to Baskerville Hall in the mist-covered moors of Dartmoor in southern England.
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is both a comedy and a drama as it recounts the real life story of a woman who is a Type 1 diabetic and risks everything to give birth to her own child.
Witness For The Prosecution
Leonard Vole stands accused of murdering a rich widow. With shocking witness testimony, outbursts from the dock and a young man’s fight to escape the hangman’s noose.