Billy Liar

by Keith Waterhouse

Published February 1967
Billy Liar is a regional comedy about a youth who attempts to escape his dull family life through fantasy.

Kidnapped at Christmas

by Willis Hall

Published 1 December 1975
Crosby and Gilbert are escaped convicts who couldn't face the thought of yet another Christmas dinner in gaol. Their adventures on the run, in various disguises, dodging a host of amazing characters are all tremendous fun.2 women, 7 men

Our Song

by Keith Waterhouse

Published 1 July 1988
Roger Piper is married, middle-aged and middle-rung; he is a man who has elevated failure to an art form. His wife thinks he is up all night writing a novel. In fact, he's writing a suicide note, a long farewell letter to Angela Caxton, the girl with the marmalade-coloured...Read more

Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the "Low Life" column for the Spectator magazine chronicling Soho life as well as offering a very personal philosophy on vodka, women and race-courses. From this, Keith Waterhouse has brilliantly constructed a play (the title being the euphemism used...Read more

An exhuberant comedy which is yet a sad commentary on twentieth-century bureaucracy. The Hesseltines are living in property well overdue for demolition and they are looking forward to being re-housed in more beautiful and salutory surroundings. The crisis comes when they find that, far from a house with a...

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A Right Christmas Caper

by Willis Hall

Published 1 June 1978
This is the third Christmas Eve spent in the company of convicts Gilbert and Crosby (the first two being Kidnapped at Christmas and Christmas Crackers). Our lovable heroes are back in prison again with Warders Mullins and MacBain.2 women, 7 men

Literature for life

Ordered by the Emperor to find the gold "in the skies" and aided by his equally lazy son, they have just four days in which to recover it. They succeed but only after an accidental discovery of the thieves, a trip on the high seas with pirates and a...Read more

Whoops-a-daisy

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Published January 1979

Celebration

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Published 1 March 1983
The Wedding and The Funeral make up the two parts of this comedy in which we are introduced to the same family, first making preparations for a wedding and subsequently, six months later, returning from the funeral of their Uncle Arthur, a lovable personality who provides the link between...Read more

Children's Day

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Published 1 May 1975
A hectic children's birthday party provides a noisy background to a series of domestic crises. Robin has left Emma and Emma has become friendly with her solicitor, Tom; both Tom and Robin arrive for the celebrations. The mishaps of the party spill over into the kitchen'situation, the behaviour of...Read more


Who's Who

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Published 1 April 1974
Who's Who takes place in the lounge of a Brighton hotel a place of faded elegance where the inevitable trio saw away playing sad and dated ballads. In the first act we follow the confusion that Mr. Black and Mr. White land themselves in as inextricable as the hotel...Read more

Christmas Crackers

by Willis Hall

Published 1 December 1976
Christmas Crackers is the hilariously funny sequel to Kidnapped at Christmas, written by Willis Hall for Christmas 1975. Crosby and Gilbert, our two convicts, are spending a lonely Christmas Eve eating baked beans on the stage of an empty theatre when they encounter their old enemies - Detective Constable...Read more

Walk on, Walk on

by Willis Hall

Published April 1976