Brindsley Miller, a sculptor, and his fiancée Carol Melkett have borrowed expensive antique furniture from his neighbour Harold without his permission to impress an elderly collector who wants to buy some of Brindsley’s work and Carol’s father. However, when a blackout brings Harold home sooner than expected and when Brindsley’s ex Clea shows up things […]

‘Living Together’ is the second of Ayckbourn’s ‘The Norman Conquest’ trilogy that deals with a traumatic family weekend in a Victorian country house, the action here taking place in the living room. Norman is a librarian who is married to Ruth, but actually fancies his sisters-in-law Annie and Sarah. Annie is also being courted by […]

Agatha Christie wrote ‘The Mousetrap’ in 1952, adapting an earlier radio play called ‘Three Blind Mice’ into a full length stage-play with the present title. The play takes place in a small English guest-house run by a young couple: it is winter, and the house is almost completely cut off by snow. Into this setting […]