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William Douglas Home

WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME  (1912 - 1992)

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Eric Glass Ltd  

Playwright William Douglas-Home (1912-1992) was one of the West end's most successful post-war Dramatists. His plays include Now Barabbas (1947), the Chiltern Hundreds (1947), the Thistle and the Rose (1948), the Reluctant Debutante (1955) (which was twice filmed, most recently in 2003 under the title What a Girl Wants, starring Colin Firth and Kelly Preston), the Reluctant Peer (1964), Betzi (1965), a Friend Indeed (1965), the Secretary Bird (1967), the Queen's HigHLAnd Servant (1967), the Jockey Club Stakes (1970), Lloyd George Knew My Father (1972), at the end of the Day (1973), the Dame of Sark (1974), the Kingfisher (1978), and after the Ball is Over (1985). the younger brother of Prime Minister alec Douglas Home, he regularly stood for Parliament himself. He was court-martialled and imprisoned during the Second World War for his refusal to obey orders during the allied operation to capture the port of Le Havre in September 1944 because French civilians had not been permitted to evacuate.

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         After the Ball Is Over         Ambassador Extraordinary         At the End Of the Day         Aunt Edwina         Bad Samaritan, The         Bad Soldier Smith, The         Betzi         Bishop And the Actress, The         Caro William         Chiltern Hundreds, The         Christmas Truce         Cigarette Girl, The         Club Bore, The         Consulting Room, The         Contempt Of Court         Dame Of Sark, The         David And Jonathan         Douglas Cause, The         Dramatic Licence         Drawing Room Tragedy, The         Editor Regrets, The         Eleventh Hour (My Lord Mayor) (the Conservative), The         Four HeArts Doubled         Friend Indeed, A         Golf Umbrella, The         Great Possessions         Grouse Moor Image, The         Heir Apparently (the Heir Apparent)         Her Mother Came Too         His Excellency's Wife         In the Red         Iron Duchess, The         Jockey Club Stakes, The         Kingfisher, The         Little Victims, The         Lloyd George Knew My Father         Lord's Lieutenant, The         Manor Of Northstead, The         Marry Bachelor         Master Of Arts         Now Barabbas         On Such A Night         Passing By         Perch, The         Portrait Of A Wild Man (Portraits)         Portraits         Queen's Highland Servant, The         Reluctant Debutante, The         Reluctant Peer, The         Rolls Hyphen Royce         Rosa (the Duchess Of Jermyn St)         Secretary Bird, The         Ski Instructor, The         Statute Of the Eighth Of August         Thistle And the Rose, The         Two Accounts Rendered         Uncle Dick's Surprise         Up A Gum Tree         Yes, M'Lud         Young People (the Honeymoon)         You're Alright, How Am I?

After the Ball Is Over

Synopsis:
This delightful comedy was seen at the Old Vic in 1985 starring Patrick Cargill and Anthony Quayle. the annual Drayton Castle Hunt Ball is held on the very night that the Bill outlawing fox hunting passes through the House of Lords. This inauspicious start to the evening only serves to herald further confusion and disaster! 'He [William Douglas Home] loves his characters, knows their world intimately and he sends you away with a warm regard for their eccentricities.' Spectator

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Organisations:
Compass

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Ambassador Extraordinary

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1948

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-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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At the End Of the Day

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Guildford, Surrey    1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Aunt Edwina

Synopsis:
Colonel edward Ryan accidently takes some horse pills a becomes a woman - aunt edwina. To balance things his wife takes the pills so she can become a man

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Devonshire PArk, eastbourne, Sussex    14 Sep 1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1960   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 59.239

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Bad Samaritan, The

Synopsis:
Set in the Deanery of an english Cathedral town

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bromley, Kent    02 Sep 1952

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
evans, London, 1954   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
3 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 53.122

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Bad Soldier Smith, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1961

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
evans, London, 1962   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Second World War Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Betzi

Synopsis:
Period 1815, set in St Helena tells of Napoleon's arrival and his relationship with a young girl

Notes:
aka Betsy

1st Produced:
Salisbury    1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Bishop And the Actress, The

Synopsis:
Jilted actress, about to commit suicide is visited by lover's father, a worldly compassionate bishop.

Notes:
televised 1968

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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-

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Caro William

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1952

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Chiltern Hundreds, The

Synopsis:
Members of the Lister family have represented the town at Parliament for two hundred years. Tony the son of the present Lord Lister stands as a Conservative candidate and unexpectedly loose to a socialist.

Notes:
aka Yes, M'Lord (New York, 1949)

1st Produced:
London    1947

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1949   -

Music:
-

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Christmas Truce

Synopsis:
No Man's Land on the Western Front during WW1 as troops declare a spontaneous truce to play football

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1990   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cigarette Girl, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Club Bore, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Manuscript and typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.11222/8-10

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Consulting Room, The

Synopsis:
-

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-

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-

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-   -

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-

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Contempt Of Court

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Manuscript and Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a50

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Dame Of Sark, The

Synopsis:
Follows the course of events during the German occupation of Sark during WW"

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Oxford    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1976   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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David And Jonathan

Synopsis:
Friendship from the Bible

Notes:
aka And As For Jonathan, And, Marriage Rites

1st Produced:
Farnham, Surrey    1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Douglas Cause, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nottingham    1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  20            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Dramatic Licence

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a39

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Drawing Room Tragedy, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Salisbury    1963

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Editor Regrets, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1979   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Eleventh Hour (My Lord Mayor) (the Conservative), The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Manuscript and typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a48

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Four HeArts Doubled

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Friend Indeed, A

Synopsis:
about mixed parentage and the ensuing complications when their respective offspring fall in love

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1966   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Golf Umbrella, The

Synopsis:
Robert, a failing playwright, is inspired to write his next play on the theme on adultery. Having read the first draft, his wife Susan claims his seduction scene lacks realism and Robert admits that he has had no experience whatsoever with extra-marital affairs. Susan decides to provide him with the experience he needs for his research, and arranges a romantic liaison for him with an old flame, Sheila. Susan makes herself scarce while Robert sets to wooing Sheila, who unfortunately realises all too soon that she is being framed and proceeds to foil his plans. Deflated, Robert phones Susan at her mothers to let her know that their plan has backfired - however Susan is elsewhere, and we are left wondering whether she is carrying out a seduction scenario of her own!

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-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
english Theatre Guild, London, 1984   -

Music:
-

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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Great Possessions

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1937

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Grouse Moor Image, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Plymouth    1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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-

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Heir Apparently (the Heir Apparent)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
MS and typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a47

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Her Mother Came Too

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Leatherhead, Surrey    1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a52

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His Excellency's Wife

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1940

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript (act II only)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a3

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In the Red

Synopsis:
playwright attempts to blackmail bank manager in effort to reduce debt, all tables are ironically turned

Notes:
aka In the Red

1st Produced:
Boston, Lincolnshire    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Iron Duchess, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
evans, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
3 act extravagance

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 57.48

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Jockey Club Stakes, The

Synopsis:
Cover up by the Jockey Club after compulsive betting scandal involving a steward's wife.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Grand Theatre, Leeds    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1971   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kingfisher, The

Synopsis:
best selling novelist decides to marry one of the many women in his life to the discomfort of his butler of fifty years

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brighton    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1981   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Little Victims, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1940

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a2

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Lloyd George Knew My Father

Synopsis:
planning authorities are intending to drive a road through a stately old lady's grounds, the old general rides to the rescue

Notes:
aka Lady Boothroyd of the By-Pass

1st Produced:
Boston, Lincolnshire    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays Of the Year Vol.42", elek, London, 1972   -

Music:
-

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lord's Lieutenant, The

Synopsis:
Peer's daughter holds religious debate with pop star idol in church, he finds religion after she bears his child and is later killed in a car crash

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Farnham, Surrey    1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978   -

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Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  choirboys

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Manor Of Northstead, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Nottingham: Theatre Royal    15 Mar 1954

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1956   -

Music:
-

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Comedy 3 act

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 54.112

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Marry Bachelor

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1936

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a1

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Master Of Arts

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brighton    1949

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1950   -

Music:
-

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Now Barabbas

Synopsis:
there are two new arrivals at a London prison. Roberts and Richards. Roberts had got drunk and helped himself to the contents of the bar's till. Richards' crime is not specified but he was a chorus boy and the other prisoners call him "Polly" and he forms an attachment to IRa prisonner O'Brien. Medworth, an older prisonner who is inside for inappropiate dealings with his pupils at a public school, informs the Governor of the attachment and Richards is moved to another prison. In the condemned cell Tufnell waits to hear if his plea for clemancy is to be granted. a basically decent sort who snapped when a policeman insulted his girlfriend and shot him.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Boltons Theatre, Kensington    1947

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Longman, London, 1947   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  3            Other:  -

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On Such A Night

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    ?1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Typescript (TV)

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a46

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Passing By

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1940

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

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-

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-

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Perch, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Pitlochry    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Portrait Of A Wild Man (Portraits)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1987

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-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Manuscript and typescript

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a55

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Portraits

Synopsis:
augustus John's ability as portrait artist won him the admiration of fellow artists, public recognition and the Order of Merit. William Douglas Home's play presents various points in the Bohemian artist's turbulent life from 1944  1961 through a reconstruction of sittings with three of his subjects (all played by the same actor)  General Bernard Montgomery, fellow artist Mathew Smith and designer Cecil Beaton. This keenly observed, sensitive play is finely interwoven with the thread of John's gradually developing pacifism  from his certainty in spring 1944 that Monty's young aDC will not survive the second front, to war's devastating effect on Matthew Smith, to John's vibrant fear of the nuclear nightmare and his own approaching death.

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1988   -

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-

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Play/Drama

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Queen's Highland Servant, The

Synopsis:
Depicts the relationship of Queen Victoria to her servant and friend, John Brown

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plays of the Year, v35", Ungar, New York, 1968   -

Music:
-

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Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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-

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Reluctant Debutante, The

Synopsis:
Shelia and Jimmy Broadbent have rented a flat in London to launch their daughter on Society. Shelia has invited every young man that her daughter Jane danced with a party the night before to the flat in the hopes that she can find a husband from amongst them

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1956   -

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-

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Comedy 2 act

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wearing - the London Stage 55.102

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Reluctant Peer, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brighton    1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1964   -

Music:
-

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Comedy

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Rolls Hyphen Royce

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Rosa (the Duchess Of Jermyn St)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
MS and typescript

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a25

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Secretary Bird, The

Synopsis:
Domestic problems with husband host to wife's lover as he foils her impending departure.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Swanage    1967

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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-

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Ski Instructor, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a41

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Statute Of the Eighth Of August

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1947

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Typescript

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a40

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Thistle And the Rose, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Boltons    06 Sep 1949

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in the Plays of William Douglas Home, Heinemann, London, 1958   -

Music:
-

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3 act play

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  6            Other:  doubling

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 51.106

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Two Accounts Rendered

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
includes the Home Secretary And Lady J.P. 2

1st Produced:
London    1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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-

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Uncle Dick's Surprise

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Salisbury    1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Up A Gum Tree

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ipswich    1960

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Yes, M'Lud

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1949

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Young People (the Honeymoon)

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    c.1954

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
MS

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a11

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You're Alright, How Am I?

Synopsis:
intimate conversations and fluctuating sympathies.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: William Douglas Home - acc.9406/a49

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