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A Man's Best Friend

Sketches / Scenes, Comedy  /  1w, 1m

An entertainment on marriage by George Melly, Alan Ayckbourn, James
Saunders, Harold Pinter, Alun Owen, Fay Weldon, David Campton, Lyndon
Brook and John Bowen.

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    1w, 1m

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Mixed Doubles, 'an entertainment on marriage,' takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters. . . Each is an independent play in its own right but the whole sequence, linked by a series of wickedly anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly adds up to an amusing if acid picture of the progress of married life from honeymoon to cemetry.

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James Saunders

James Saunders was born on January 8, 1925, in Islington, North London. After receiving an Arts Council Playwrights’ Bursary for THE ARK in 1960 he became a full-time playwright in 1964. His early plays led him to be considered one of the main British exponents of the Theatre ...
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