An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.
E2 · The Heart's a Wonder
1958
A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.
E3 · Living for Pleasure
1958
E4 · Expresso Bongo
1958
An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.
E5 · Not in the Book
1958
E6 · Eighty in the Shade
1959
E7 · Hook, Line and Sinker
1959
E8 · A Day in the Life of...
1959
E9 · The Long and the Short and the Tall
1959
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
E10 · Fool's Paradise
1959
E11 · How Say You?
1959
E12 · Let Them Eat Cake
1959
E13 · Gilt and Gingerbread
1959
E14 · Caught Napping
1959
E15 · The Ring of Truth
1959
E16 · The Grass Is Greener
1959
A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.
E17 · Rollo
1959
E18 · And Suddenly It's Spring
1959
E19 · The Amourous Prawn
1960
A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.
