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Fred Partridge

FRED PARTRIDGE  

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below is a list of Fred Partridge's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Birds Of Passage         Country Pleasures         Every Kind Of Fool         Men of Letters         No Two Ways About It         Rude Awakenings         Sweet Emotion, A

Birds Of Passage

Synopsis:
Fugitive insurance fraudster Owen is hiding out where you'd least expect - almost in the shadow of Dartmoor Prison. Wife Joy is fed up and plans a getaway with the first passing motorist. He turns out to be Guy, one of Owen's victims, and an acquaintance of hers when she was a teenager. He's there to rendezvous with another old acquaintance, prison escapee Charlie. Matters are complicated by hazy weather, and visits from 'Poison Violet', a much-widowed man-eater, and postmistress-cum-Prison Visitor Miss Hoare. But the arrival of heiress Des in her helicopter helps resolve the situation.

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1998)   978-1840942019

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Country Pleasures

Synopsis:
Adapted from the classic Polish comedy 'Pan Jowialski', written in 1832 by Aleksander Fredro, Poland's greatest comic playwright, which satirises in the character of Helena the extremes of the then fashionable 'Romantic' movement. In it the Jovialski country estate is the setting for a practical joke played by Janusz, a boorish landowner, on two travelling students, Ludmir and Victor. The joke backfires, leading to his own discomfiture, the victory of traditional good sense over romantic nonsense, a mother's reunion with her long-lost child, and an ending in which true love is triumphant.

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1998)   978-1840942187

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Every Kind Of Fool

Synopsis:
Polzunkov is a fool: a professional buffoon. He makes his living telling people how it all came about. He used to be a conscientious Civil Servant, engaged, or thought he was, to Mashenka the daughter of his superior, Fedosy Nikolaich. But what with the Cavalry Officer, and not being acknowledged by his Father, who went and died without leaving him a rouble, and then the Inspector, to say nothing of Marya Fominishna, her mother, and of course the Maid! And it all started out as an almost perfectly innocent April Fool's Day joke! But it put paid to his poor old Granny.

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New Theatre Publications (1999)   978-1840942552

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Men of Letters

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Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche, "La Grammaire" (1867)

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New Playwrights Network, 1975   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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No Two Ways About It

Synopsis:
A hectic Sunday at the country house of celebrated comic author, Eugine Labiche in 1879. Hortensia, an actress, arrives requesting a play, accompanied by Hector, dedicated to realism in stage design, and pursued by Baron Hossegor, her jealous backer, with Achille, a naval lieutenant, in tow, bearing a death-bed message for Hortensia from his father. Hector also has an undelivered letter from his deceased father, and the contents of both are equally surprising. Forewarned, Labiche has absented himself. But after three of the four visitors have departed, both Isabelle, the local doctor's daughter, and Machut, the vet, have every reason for satisfaction.

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1997)   978-1840940718

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rude Awakenings

Synopsis:
Ruth, a librarian, introduces University drop-out Mike Brooker into the family home in the mistaken belief that he is a budding playwright whose 'muse' she hopes to become. He, for his part, is under the equally mistaken impression that she is promising him sexual favours. Disabused, Mike deftly turns the situation to his own advantage, but when Ruth discovers that sister-in-law Lilian is providing more than board and lodging, that brother George has also got drawn into the web of deceptions, and that the promised play is never going to materialise, she engineers her own version of a Greek Tragedy.

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1998)   978-1840941739

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sweet Emotion, A

Synopsis:
Murder in England as a Dramatic sequence of events follow on from a love affair

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New Playwrights Network, 1991   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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