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"The Door Was Open"  Comedy drama by Virginia Hobart 1f &1boy      ISBN 1-873130-29-5
                                            Performance  Licence £25 per night
Charlotte, in her dressing gown, is setting the table for a dinner party three days ahead.  Her ill-tempered, grudging preparations for the dull company and old, vividly contrasting memories are interrupted by the arrival of Billy, a bob-a-job scout, whose ordinary family background and naive curiosity penetrate and disturb her layers of self-preoccupation
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"A Lot To Do With Love"  Drama by Virginia Hobart 2f & 1m    ISBN 1-873130-27-9
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Following a car accident, Lucas has been in hospital some months, comatose on life support. He is visited by two women. One is his wife, the other his lover.  All goes well until their visiting times overlap and they finally meet.
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"For The Birds"  Comedy monologue for one male by Virginia Hobart   ISBN 1-873130-28-7
                                  Performance Licence £25 per night
Frank Tossel worked for forty seven years for the Canadian Pacific Railway through the prairie settlement, the depression, the breakdown of his marriage, corporate cut-backs and eventual redundancy.  He now lives on his own with his parrot, Joseph, for company and battles against his neighbour, the Social Services and the world in general.
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"A Freudian Slip"  Comedy by Mike Wright   1m & 2f      ISBN 1-873130-11-2
                               Books £4 each   Performance Licence £25 per night
A male psychiatrist receives a new female patient.  She has a problem.  She can't stop throwing herself at every man she sees - every man, that is, except the psychiatrist.  We dare you not to laugh.
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