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Charles, a writer, needs some background information about spiritualism for a book he is writing so he invites a medium into his country home to assist him. Unfortunately, her ‘powers’ summon up the ghost of his dead first wife who then proceeds to create confusion and mayhem for both Charles and his second wife. The...

Three women meet in a coffee shop where one (their art teacher) works and talk about men, art and life in general. Their talks are overheard by the ghostly figure of TS Eliot who is inspired to write his poem, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.

Two men, scruffy but dignified, meet in a deserted, desolate environment, sit, wait and talk while waiting (for a man called Godot). Two other men, equally scruffy but much less dignified arrive, leave, return and leave again. A Boy arrives with news that Godot cannot come today; he too leaves and may (or may not)...

Carluccio and the Queen of Hearts is the story of the later years of the man who was once Bonnie Prince Charlie, the years during which he was an unwanted exile in Italy, unwanted by the Pope, the Florentines, the English – and his much younger wife. The playwright, George Rosie, is an Edinburgh journalist...

The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit. By chance, they become involved in the action causing a series of events that parallel...

The Globe Theatre is immensely proud that Renee, one of New Zealand’s iconic playwrights, has chosen this theatre to stage the world premiere of her new play, Shall We Gather at the River. Renee, who spent several years at the Globe as artistic director in the 1980s, has also chosen to have her new play...

This play tells the story of the bonds that hold families together, even when the core family as in this case consists of two step-sisters, Rusa and Grace, who have been estranged for 20 years. They come together on this day, their shared birthday and finally discover that love, in all its forms, is really...

“Amusingly written, with very good twists”, this is a play within a play in which the off-stage jealousies and entanglements between the actors, not to mention artistic differences, disrupt the action on stage. A deliciously silly comedy in which nothing is quite what it seems and chaos is unleashed. Synopsis The scene is a flat...

The story of The Dumb Waiter concerns two hit-men waiting on the go-ahead to carry out their next job. The ambiguous details of the job, and the suspenseful situation, at times create hilarity, while at other times cause explosions of pent up anger and frustration due to the lack of control the characters have over...

Conversations in a gallery, watered by tea and fed by sweet biscuits, spiced by… well, this we do need to keep under our hats until later! All we will say is that this is good Christmas fare, sweet but with sharp, slightly sour overtones.