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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w, 6m, 7 any gender (youth)
Alan Ayckbourn
Teddy Platt, whose marriage is spectacularly on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ring-Mayne, who is trying to persuade him to stand for Parliament.
Teddy Platt, whose marriage is spectacularly on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ring-Mayne, who is trying to persuade him to stand for Parliament. In the original production at Scarborough, and later at the National Theatre, the play was performed in adjacent auditoria simultaneously with Garden.
Contained in the volume House & Garden
M6 (20, 30s-late 50s-early 60s) F8 (17, 30s-50s). Children (7-8). Extras.
The summer sitting-room of the house of Teddy and Trish Platt.
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