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Adjudicator, The
Synopsis:
Billy Rose is on the run from both his gang boss and the police. He meets drama adjudicator on a practically deserted train. When he gets the chance he steals some of her clothes and then passes himself off as the adjudicator. Entrants in the competition try to bribe him. Then he discovers that both his old gang and the police are entrants in the competition
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Comedy
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Brief Encounter
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Their affair has been discovered. They have whispered conversation whilst watching a film in the cinema. He wants things to go to a permanent relationship. She wants it all over
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Ten minute play
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Great And Noble Enterprise, A
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Christmas Eve 1660. At the home of Sir Thomas and Lady Anne Fairfax Sir Thomas is preparing for his annual alms giving to the poor on his estate. Once the King had been restored to the throne he retired from public life. A Puritan girl arrives with a Bible that had been her father's an army chaplain. She has been instruct by late father to give it to Sir Thomas
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Historical drama
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Myrtle and the Comic Relief Literary Convention
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Noel Coward is interrupted whilst writing "Brief Encounter". Myrtle Bagot the manageress of the station wants all Laura's lines and the working class characters not portrayed as simpletons. If she does not get her way she will expose him. Another character Dr Alex has the solution
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Short play
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You
Synopsis:
When she was sixteen she had a baby and gave him up for adoption. Now in middle age she has received a letter from her son asking to meet
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Drama
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You - The Monologue
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When she was sixteen she had a baby and gave him up for adoption. Now in middle age she has received a letter from her son asking to meet
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Fifteen minute play
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