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THE CONSTANT WIFE Cast: Constance and John Middleton have the perfect house, perfect lives, and the perfect marriage. Or do they? When John’s affair with Constance’s best friend is suddenly public knowledge, it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. Constance takes matters into her own hands – instead of getting mad, she decides to get even. But when the dust settles after their bitingly comic “battle of the sexes,” who will be the last one standing? 'The Constant Wife' was sponsored by Polis and Latchi Scene: www.palsmagazine.com and Paragon Marine Services: www.paragonmarine.com.cy AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD WINNERS OF THE ROSEBOWL DRAMA FESTIVAL, BEST ACTOR AND ACTRESS TROPHY, AND WAISTCOAT TROPHY FOR BEST SET TOGETHER WITH THE YOUTH GROUP Cast: This play re-creates the 1958 chance meeting in Moscow between Guy Burgess, the infamous British diplomat who spied for the Russians in the 1950s, and English actress Coral Browne. HI FI SPY or WHAT THE BUTLER DIDN'T SEE WINNERS OF THE ADJUDICATOR'S POT AND WAISTCOAT TROPHY FOR BEST SET TOGETHER WITH THE ADULT GROUP Cast: A group of mysterious and suspicious characters gradually gather at the home of Doctor Jeune. They are clearly up to no good. But what exactly are they doing and who exactly are they? What crime has been committed - if any - and can the police solve it? All will be revealed in the fullness of time - or will it? MURDER ON THE NILE Cast: A group of tourists take a trip on a steamboat down the Nile. The characters -- an overbearing matron, her put-upon niece, a socialist who looks down on the rich, a clergyman, a foreign doctor, newlyweds and the jilted girlfriend. Each has a skeleton in the closet, and is any of them who he or she seems? When one of them turns up dead, it is Canon Pennefather who puts together the bits and pieces until the murderer is revealed. 'Murder on the Nile' was sponsored by Petz Stuff A CHRISTMAS CAROL Cast: The classic story: 4 ghosts visit the miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. The apparition of Scrooge's business partner Marley, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas As Yet To Come guide Scrooge along his loveless present and bleak future. The vision of his own headstone and the fact that no one will mourn his death force Scrooge to see the error of his "Bah! Humbug!" attitude towards both life and Christmas. 'A Christmas Carol' was sponsored by Oliver's Delicatessen: www.oliversdelicatessen.com BOEING BOEING Cast: Bernard, a successful architect living in Paris, thinks he can easily cope with his three air-hostess fiancées. It is all a question of timetables and a reliable, long-suffering housekeeper who reluctantly has the role of romantic air-traffic controller. When old college pal Robert arrives, Bernard relishes the chance to show his wide-eyed visitor his first-class operation at work. Unfortunately, when a new turbo-charged 'Super Boeing' is introduced, flights are delayed, schedules change and chaos ensues in this hysterical whirl of mayhem and matchmaking. 'Boeing Boeing' was sponsored by Ampersand Interiors: www.ampersandinteriors.eu TRIPLE TREAT (A Selection of One Act Plays) DOUBLES (An extract from 'Alarms and Excursions') Cast: Two adjoining hotel bedrooms. Two couples, strangers. Miles a joker, Laurence – boring. Their partners, Melanie, Lynn, going quietly mad. They go to dinner, return, pull the others to pieces, eavesdrop – leading to misunderstandings. The night is eventful, and embarrassing. Come the morning, balcony meetings bring more embarrassments. At the end, each couple feels unable to leave their room – for ever??? ALARMS (An extract from 'Alarms and Excursions') Cast: A dinner party with two couples soon shows all the hallmarks of classic farce. Frayn throws in a defective smoke alarm,a buzzing kitchen timer, a renegade phone system and a lethal corkscrew for good measure – and endless laughter. THE FAT LADY SINGS IN LITTLE GRIMLEY Cast: Gordon, Margaret, Joyce and Bernard are back to tackle yet another threat to their survival - this time in the shape of a rival am-dram group, newly-formed in their village, determined to upstage them with an award-winning musical. The querulous quartet pull together to devise an ingenious military-style plan that doesn't, well, go quite to plan. When their subterfuge is discovered by the rival society's psychopathic front-of-house manager, he's none too pleased. Add in a few emotional complications for Gordon, and things look a little grim for Little Grimley. Could this finally be the end of their society? ---- Don't be so sure. It's never over...until the fat lady sings. CROWN MATRIMONIAL Cast List: Crown Matrimonial focuses on the crisis that faced the nation when Edward VIII declared his deep love for Wallis Simpson. Unswayed by the prospect of public scandal, family upheaval and even abdication, he is insistent that he will marry the woman he loves.Set in Marlborough House in 1936, this insight into the domestic life of the Royal Family shows the volatile relationship between Queen Mary and her son King Edward VIII caused by his love affair, and mirrors the other great royal constitutional crisis in 1997 portrayed in the film 'The Queen' 'Crown Matrimonial' was sponsored by the UKCA (Paphos) Limited: www.ukca.com.cy CINDERS, The True Story Cast List: Once upon a time, there was a hard-working young girl called Cinders.
Everybody loved Cinders because she was gentle, shy and unassuming - NOT! ON GOLDEN POND Cast List: An ageing couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer arrive at their summer place on Golden Pond. Soon, their estranged daughter Chelsea shows up with her boyfriend Bill and his thirteen year old son Billy. Conflicts between Norman and Chelsea, which have been going on for years, further develop upon her arrival at the lake. Billy is eventually responsible for the resolution of the conflicts between father and daughter. 'ON GOLDEN POND' was sponsored by ProACT Partnership:
www.proactpartnership.com THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION) Cast List: A group of friends assemble for
Trivial Pursuit in the apartment of divorced Olive Madison. The apartment mess
is a good indication why her husband left her years earlier. Late to arrive is
Florence Unger who just became separated from her husband. Since she is very
tense, they fear that she might commit suicide. As life would have it, the slob
Olive and the neat Florence decide to move in together - with hilarious results.
The patters of their own disastrous marriages begin to reappear in this new
arrangement. SAME TIME NEXT YEAR Cast List: After a one-night stand at a country inn, happily married (but
not to one another) George and Doris decide to meet again the next year, and
soon they are as committed to their annual weekend together as they are to their
own spouses and families. This romantic comedy covers the growth of their
friendship and love over the course of a 24-year relationship, and the
inevitable changes in their lives and the world around them. Same Time Next Year
captures the joy, pain, and humour that typify daily - or annual - human
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