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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6w, 4m
Norman Robbins
A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family one member of which has were wolf tendencies,…
A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family one member of which has were wolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar and a third member is a gentle old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds. By the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast and what about the sympathetic nurse and the author of romantic novels are they all, or more than, they seem to be? All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.
24th October 1977, St Giles Player
As of 2016 over 1,760 productions worldwide
Translations in German and Dutch
HAMILTON PENWORTHY - 70s
LUCIEN TOMB - 50s
DORA TOMB - 49 looks 60
EMILY TOMB - mid 40s
MARCUS TOMB - mid 40s
ANNE FRANKLIN - mid 20s
AGATHA HAMMOND - mid 60s
FREDA MOUNTJOY - (40 - 50)
PEREGRINE POTTER - mid 30s
MONICA TOMB - mid 30s
All of the Tomb characters are 'over the top' but take themselves very seriously
Lucien - pompous petulant professor type:
Dora - nervous demeanour,dithery, fussy type:
Emily - could be mistaken for an all in wrestler:
Marcus - imagines himself to be Caesar:
Monica - man mad!
"This is a well written and well constructed play with more twists and turns than a corkscrew and you will never work out who the murderer is, so you ahve to wait to the end of the play to find out" – Seaford and Newhaven News, May 2013
"Laughter with a chilly spine" – Sussex Express, May 1979
Norman Robbins, one of Amateur Theatre's most popular authors, wrote his first stage show almost 60 years ago whilst working for the Yorkshire Evening Post. An avid theatregoer from the age of three (his grandparents ran the pub near the local theatre so free tickets were al ...