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DOUGLAS ESSON
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Nervous Breakdown
Synopsis:
Rose, en route to a country and western finds herself stranded at an off-road petrol station after stopping to to fill up with petrol. Whilst she waits for her car to be fixed she strikes up with Marie, the day shift attendant. While she waits, people die. are women who kill more abhorant than men who kill ? Is the betrayal of nature more heinous than the act murder?
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winning entry of the Croydon Warehouse, South London International Playwriting competition 1993.
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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London 1995
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Black Comedy Comedy
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White Plains
Synopsis:
Set bewtween 1940 - 1950 , and concerning alice and her two sisters as they move from Scotland's Nitshill to America's New York to sit out the second world war with heir estranged aunt Barbara.
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