"Tea Girl"    Comedy by Christine Rusch    3f & 1m    ISBN 9781873130414
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Written by well-known American playwright Christine Rusch, who was recently featured in "Best American Plays 2005," this story takes place in an American tea-packing factory in the 1960's (before mechanization) where we see two great characters, Millie and Rosie, who are experienced in more than just machine working, as they meet Violet, the new girl, for the first time. They freely offer her lots of advice, especially when she is due to go out on her first date with Hunter, the new boy on the works coffee truck.  
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"The Visionary" Drama by Alan Phillips 2f & 2m ISBN 9781873130421
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The bigoted Moira is dismayed that her son draws figures which he sees when he thinks intensely of them.  She is more dismayed at his posing naked for art classes to finance art studies.  They are unaware that Liam is an eidetiker or visionary, like Blake.  Stephen, the priest, suggests that Liam should see a psychiatrist.  The briliant and beautiful Felicitas gives him psychotherapy, explains his condition and  encourages him.  They fall in love and Liam moves in with his gracious mentor who poses for him to create sculptures in bronze.
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"Fresco"  Black comedy by Alan Phillips  3f & 3m  ISBN 9781873130438
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Bianca returns from Northern Australia where she has lived with the Yolgnu tribe, studying their customs, their rock paintings and has even joined in their ceremonial dances (naked).  Her local church needs a mural for the hall and Bianca plans a fresco inspired by Aborigine art but she comes up agianst Unity who is a confirmed spinster and whose deceased father raised the money which will pay for the fresco ... friction ensues
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"We Have All The Time In The World" Comic sketch by Annette Pakenham-Walsh
   5 mature females   ISBN 9781873130451   Internet copies only £3.00   £20 per night

A wonderfully amusing insight into life in retirement for mature females as our heroines assemble in the library cafe to discuss what the day holds in store for them
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"One Without Shame" Drama by James Brockbank 4m ISBN 9781873130483
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In the First World war a young soldier is ordered to join a firing squad to execute one of his comrades who is suffering from shell-shock and he refuses to do it.
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