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Arsenic and Old Lace

The plot revolves around the Brewster family of Brooklyn, New York, descended from the Mayflower and composed of illustrious White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ancestors whose portraits line the walls. The religious theme is repeatedly mentioned, and Elaine is the daughter of the minister who lives next door, with some scenes held in its ancient cemetery. Today the Brewster clan comprises insane murderers.
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Art

The comedy, which raises questions about art and friendship, concerns three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes "art". Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them.
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Games and After Liverpool

After Liverpool, a witty, spinning set of conversation between couples, new and old, exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading. Games, which attempts (and succeeds) on breaking the barrier between the actors, the acting, the performance and eventually the audience. You are pulled into watching the actors preparing for a play, but you don't know what is the practice and the discussion of the play.
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Greater Tuna

Greater Tuna was originally produced in 1981 in Austin, Texas, by it's authors, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. The play's stars, Williams and Sears, played all twenty characters and Howard directed.
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Lovers and Other Strangers (Five Comedies)

A series of one act plays including Brenda and Jerry in a planned seduction gone wrong, Johnny and Wilma in a marriage so long that they can't remember who starts what. With Mike and Susan, on the eve their wedding, he's getting cold feet and she must gently talk him down the aisle. In the last play, Bea, Frank, Richie and Joan, a long-married couple who have fought for over thirty years try to save their son's marriage by confessing to their own failures.
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Now There’s Just The Three of Us

Frank and Perry are roommates who are coming into manhood and focused on losing their virginity. The centrepiece is a large poster of their hero and bad boy, Jimmy Dean, which neither of them measures up to. Yet, when a bad-boy stranger barges in uninvited, a cascade of events occurs, which changes their lives.
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Oscar and Felix

America's comic mastermind has updated his classic comedy: The Odd Couple, bringing the trials and tribulations of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison to the present day. Those who love the original version will laugh all over again at the classic characters in an all-new setting.
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Spike Heels

Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manners set in Boston which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle. The combatants are a sexy, volatile young woman and three Back Bay types a writer, a lawyer and a fiancee in sensible shoes
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The Time of Your Life

The play takes place between the denizens of Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace at the foot of Embarcadero, San Francisco circa 1939.
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