Series:

Acting Edition S.

16 total works

Cover of The Cagebirds

The Cagebirds

by David Campton

Published 1 October 1976

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Can You Hear the Music?

by David Campton

Published 1 November 1988
Everyone has their dream, and this is no exception for the six mice living in the loft. Their dreams are conjured up by music as each hears a different tune played by an invisible Piper and each has to answer his call until only Tattymouse, who is completely deaf, is left. A highly original and thought-provoking play.6 women or men

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Zodiac

by David Campton

Published June 1978

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Mrs. Meadowsweet

by David Campton

Published 1 December 1985
This bewitching little play centers on the animosity between two siblings and Mrs. Meadowsweet's solution to their constant quarrelling and bickering. Mrs. Meadowsweet and her homely guest house, Respite, seem to mellow garrulous Alice, much to sister Fleur's suspicion. All of the guests seem particularly amiable and pleasant - in fact, without a care in the world. Fleur's suspicions are further aroused by their inability to remember even the slightest occurrence from their pasts.5 women

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Us and Them

by David Campton

Published 1 January 1977
This play was written to be performed by a company of almost any size, of any age and of either sex. Two parties enter, A and B, from East and West. Each party plans to settle down, then sees each other. Instant suspicion. A dividing wall is built. After mutual spying war ensues and the wall is broken down.-Flexible cast

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Permission to Cry

by David Campton

Published 1 August 1996
Julia Gibbon, a junior minister, is thrown into turmoil by the conflict between private and public morality. Her affair with Penelope Wright, a frank and forthright journalist, very much a thorn-in-the-side of the Establishment, forces Julia to confront insecurities and doubts she never knew she had. This is a compassionate play about love and politics in our hypocritical age.3 women, 1 man, 3 women or men

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The Weerd sisters try to make ends meet through fortune-telling. When Lady M calls, Flora discovers she indeed has the gift of foresight, although she does not like what she sees. The sisters' fortunes are turned. Lady M returns to learn more but this time the truth is held back.5 women

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Our Branch in Brussels

by David Campton

Published 1 September 1986
Outwardly respectable Mrs Bee does "good work" on the Committee of the Bountiful Bequest, a charity for distressed females. However, unbeknown to the other Committee members, she is financing the charity, and feathering her own nest, by running a branch in Brussels where the younger and prettier girls are transported in dubious circumstances. Blackmail ensues...-6 women

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The Evergreens

by David Campton

Published 26 November 2019

Him and Her courted back in the 1940s, but lost contact for thirty years. Reunited as members of the Evergreens Club for the elderly, they must re-learn to accept their differences.

- 1 woman, 1 man

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Who Calls?

by David Campton

Published 1 July 1980
Four servants sit solemnly in the kitchen of a large Victorian house. Their Mistress has died suddenly and the cook, discovering that the housekeeper and personal maid have stolen some of her jewellery, demands a share. Reluctantly they agree. Then the bell rings in the Mistress's room...everyone is in the kitchen, so who calls?6 women

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Relics

by David Campton

Published 1 December 1989
With the best of all possible motives, needless to say, Winifred and Una come to "sort through" Aunty Dorothy's things after the funeral, and they find that they have been forestalled! The self-righteousness tinged heavily with greed, and the pretensions and pretences that afflict families at such times are perceptively portrayed in this amusing and touching family play.4 women

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Everybody's Friend

by David Campton

Published 6 July 1979

Two ladies living next door to each other share a love of plants, but not of friendship. Mrs Roberts, Everybody's Friend (and busy-body), tries to reconcile the two ladies who have quarrelled over one much-loved plant. However, the ladies become friends, united in their eventual hatred of Mrs Roberts.

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Now and Then

by David Campton

Published 1 October 1976
For a brief while in an old house, time merges across four centuries. The Wise Woman, from Tudor times, is expecting a Customer who wishes to make use of her apparently extra-sensory powers. By chance two women from the present day happen to intrude on this event of long ago. An antique buckle provides an eerie link between the two widely-separated periods.6 women

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Singing in the Wilderness

by David Campton

Published 1 September 1986
The well-known fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peter Pan are under continuous attack from the hazard of waste brought by humans. Unexpectedly they stumble on a copse which promises to be a safe haven and yet it seems all is not well. The fairies soon find themselves faced with the prospect of living their lives in public view. Can they escape before it is too late?6 women or men

Cover of Life and Death of Almost Everybody
As he tidies up an empty stage, the Sweeper is tempted to experiment with the magic power of the theatre--to create life through the exercise of imagination. After a few preliminary tries in summoning up a rabbit and an elephant, the Sweeper plunges ahead and creates a Young Man and a Young Woman. Then, as ever more characters are called for, events begin to go beyond his bewildered control. The most potent forces in human life and society--love, hate, politics, religion--emerge and dominate, and with them the bickering, dissension and decadence which they can engender.5 women, 12 men