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Edward Percy

EDWARD PERCY

  (1891 - 1968)
Nationality:    British
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         Clouded Hours         Coloman         Doctor Brent's Household         Dressing Gown         Flowers For A Lady         Give Me Yesterday         House on the Bridge         If Four Walls Told         Ladies In Retirement         Lords Of Creation         Lost Hat         Loves Of Pegeen, The         Man With Expensive Tastes         Merry Widow Welcome or the Treasure Hunters         Peer and the Paper Girl, The         Perfect Little Fool, A         Red Wax         Rigordans         Shop At Sly Corner         Slaves All         Sparks Among the Stubble         Stars In My Hair         Stranger In the Tea         Suspect         Trunk Crime         White Blackmail         Wintry Bough

Clouded Hours

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Written by Lilian Denham and Edward Percy

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1st Published:
Josef Weinberger   -

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Drama

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Coloman

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L J Gomme, New York 1916   -

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Doctor Brent's Household

Synopsis:
Mildred returns to the family home after many years in a mental institution. She is somewhat better but not completely cured. Her son and daughter have grown up and the nanny that her husband hired to look after them when younger is now his mistress

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1940   -

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Genre:
Three Acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Dressing Gown

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written by Edward Percy And Lilian Denham

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1st Published:
Kenyon Deane, 1939   -

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Play One Act

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Flowers For A Lady

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Written by Lilian Denham and Edward Percy

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1st Published:
Josef Weinberger   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Give Me Yesterday

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written with Reginald Denham

1st Produced:
-    1938

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1959   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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House on the Bridge

Synopsis:
London 1665 the Great Plague is at its height. Puritan Jonathan Dale is quarantined in "the House On the Hill" together with his Royalist business partner. And even with the plague raging outside there is a murderer in the house

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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If Four Walls Told

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1st Published:
Heinemann 1922   -

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Ladies In Retirement

Ladies In Retirement
Ex-actress Leonora Fiske lives with her companion Ellen Greed in a remote house on the edge of the marshes of the Thames Estuary. the visit of Ellen's two eccentric sisters triggers the mysterious events in this period thriller based on a famous murder of 1885

Notes:
written by Edward Percy And Reginald Denham

1st Produced:
Henry Millers Theatre, New York    26 Mar 1940

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1st Published:
Josef Weinberger, London,    978-0856761041

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Genre:
Period Thriller

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Lords Of Creation

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written by Edward Percy And Lilian Denham

1st Produced:
Pavilion, Torquay    07 Apr 1952

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Genre:
comedy 3 act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 52.80

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Lost Hat

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1st Published:
Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1936   -

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Genre:
Criminous Comedy in 1 Act

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Loves Of Pegeen, The

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1965   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Man With Expensive Tastes

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Notes:
written by Edward Percy And Lilian Denham

1st Produced:
Q, London    06 Apr 1953

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1955   -

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Genre:
Three Acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 53.163

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Merry Widow Welcome or the Treasure Hunters

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London 1924   -

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Peer and the Paper Girl, The

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London 1924   -

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Genre:
Short play

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Perfect Little Fool, A

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London 1930   -

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Genre:
One act

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Red Wax

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1st Published:
Deane's Series of Plays, Kenyon-Deane, London, 1939   -

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Genre:
Comedy for Women in 1 Act Comedy

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Rigordans

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1st Published:
Ernest Benn 1924   -

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Drama

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Shop At Sly Corner

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1946   -

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Three Acts Play/Drama

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Slaves All

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1st Produced:
Bijou Theatre, New York    06 Dec 1926

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Drama

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Sparks Among the Stubble

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1st Produced:
London    1966

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Stars In My Hair

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Written by Edward Percy And Reginald Denham

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1st Published:
Crown Publishers, New York 1958   -

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Genre:
Thriller

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Stranger In the Tea

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written by Edward Percy And Lilian Denham. Based on A Tale by Sheridan Le Fanu

1st Produced:
Playhouse, Sheffield    14 Oct 1957

Organisations:
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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1958   -

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Genre:
Two Acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 57.306

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Suspect

Synopsis:
A newspaper magnate is staying in Cornwall. He believes that he has met his landlady before. He remembers that as a junior reporter he had covered a murder trial in Scotland which had ended with a not proven verdict. He sets out to find out what really happened.

Notes:
Written by Edward Percy And Reginald Denham

1st Produced:
-    1937

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1937   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 55.229

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Trunk Crime

Synopsis:
Wolfe lives a cloistered life in his beautifully decorated room at college. On the evening of a party, he and Pamela, a girl he is very interested in, are rudely interrupted by several other students. After Pamela leaves, the intoxicated young men tell Wolfe how intensely they dislike him, and then systematically destroy his piano, his beloved books, and a family heirloom, a charm which, according to the legend, will bring tragedy if broken. Early next morning Dick Seele, the ringleader, comes by to apologize. Wolfe is strangely quiet. Seele makes it clear he is interested in Pamela, and Wolfe invites him to date her. As Seele is leaving he asks how Wolfe seems not to have been ill affected by the party. Wolfe tells him it's a matter of a hypodermic injection and offers one to Seele. the moment the syringe is out Wolfe informs Seele that he will lose consciousness in a few moments and he awaken he will find himself inside a trunk with holes bored into it, which will be thrown into 20 feet of water near Wolfe's home. the scene shifts to Wolfe's home in the marsh country where Sonia, an attractive young widow with 2 children, is about to leave after renting the place. Wolfe is annoyed at this threat to his plans but can't do anything about it, particularly when one of Sonia's children is injured, and the family must stay a little longer. Sonia sees that Wolfe is under a strain and, for all his charm, is something of a psychopath. But she is intrigued by him. But when she discovers that one of the two trunks he brought has a body in it the truth is out. Wolfe threatens to kill her to conceal his crime, but Sonia manages to switch the trunks before he carries it out. When Wolfe realizes the enormity of what he has done he is on the point of going to pieces. But he is saved by the appearance of his victim on the stairs-alive. In order not to disturb the tremendous tense mood created by the climax of this play, the authors have most ingeniously placed their epilogue first, so that the audience may know without being in any way let in on the secret of the play, that Wolfe has been cured and will marry Sonia.

Notes:
written with Edward Percy

1st Produced:
-    1944

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  8            Other:  -

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White Blackmail

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1944   -

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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Wintry Bough

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Musical Settings by Geoffrey Wright

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1st Published:
English Theatre Guild, London, 1941   -

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Genre:
Play in Seven Scene

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