productions
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West End
Glyndebourne
Aldeburgh/Almeida Opera
Community Opera
Shaker Productions
Alarmist Theatre
- The School of Night
- Whose Crime Is It Anyway?
- The Bedbug (adaptation)
- The Assembly Women (adaptation)
Brighton Actors Workshop
Thumbscrew Theatre Company
Home Truths
A farce about the changing nature of work
Mr Lightvessel, an estate agent, who is also a volunteer lifeboatman, tries to stay solvent in the face of a frozen house market. Already paying his staff so little they have to sign on as well as working, he strives to complete a chain of sales that will save his business. Unfortunately the vital link in the chain is a dole-fraud investigator.
Play by Stephen Plaice
Directed by Alison Edgar
Designed by Katherine Lara
Cast: Tristan Sharps, Ruth Burton, Geoffrey Maltman, Ian Angus Wilkie, Liz King
Première - The Hawth, Crawley: 15th November 1995
Press notices
'If there was any doubt about the strength of the Hawth's resident company,
Shaker productions, or the writing skills of Stephen Plaice, then last week's
Home Truths quickly dispelled it'
West Sussex Gazette
'After such a promising start, the play develops into complete farce'
The Stage