Synopsis
St James Blues & A Bed for the Knight & Waiting for the Barbarians
Published by AmberLane Press
St James's Blues: The gentlemen on the committee of the Mariners' Club - the Commodores as they are known - are in a quandary. They discover that they are sitting on some valuable freehold assets in St James's. But if they decide to cash in on their windfall they will have to open their doors to women members. A gentle satire on the notion of political correctness (Cast 6m, 2f)
A Bed for the Knight: What happens when the wife of the Home Secretary wakes up one morning to find a Knight of the Realm - not her husband - sleeping peacefully beside her? A true farce and pure bedlam (Cast 8m, 4f)
Waiting for the Barbarians: The action of this play takes place in imperial Rome, but not necessarily in historical time. For we are all gathered in the market-place and the Barbarians are coming today. A witty comedy about social fears and the enemy within (Cast 5m, 2f)
"St James's Blues takes a wry amused look at the sleepy enclosed world of ancient clubs of St James's ... A Bed for the Knight is set in the world of the Westminster mansion block flat of the Home Secretary ... Waiting for the Barbarians ... reads like a superior Carry On script ... So, though there is not a four-letter word in any of these wry comedies, nor a kitchen sink anywhere in sight, you can savour everywhere the old fashioned virtues of well-constructed scenes and cunningly assembled witty dialogue" ~ Peter Roberts, Plays International