Progressive Players Gateshead - All The Plays

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3 - 7 February 1948
Spring 1600
Emlyn Williams
In 1600 England, a country girl runs away from home and joins a theatre company by pretending to be a boy, then falls in love with the company's manager.
PP 178, LT 40, Play 146
Comedy.

17 - 20 March 1948
Uncle Harry
Thomas Job
When a fabric designer falls in love, his two spinster sisters express deep jealousy, so he plots to kill one and have the other charged with the murder.
PP 179, LT 41, Play 147
Drama.

5 April 1948
Dangerous Way
Eden Phillpotts
Synopsis not available
PP 180, LT 42, Play 148
Drama, 1-Act.
Drama Festival, Tyneside Association For Music, Drama And The Arts.

11 - 15 May 1948
The Shoemaker's Holiday
Thomas Dekker
In 16th Century England, a nobleman disguises himself as a shoemaker to gain access to his lower-class love.
PP 181, LT 43 (Previously produced in 1927)
Comedy.

13 - 17 July 1948
Time And The Conways
John Boynton Priestley
The lives of a happy group of friends in 1919 are contrasted with how their fortunes have changed by 1938, with faded dreams, bitterness and tragedy.
PP 182, LT 44, Play 149
Drama.

21 - 25 September 1948
An Inspector Calls
John Boynton Priestley
As a family celebrates the engagement of their daughter to the son of a business rival, an inspector arrives to investigate a girl's suicide.
PP 183, LT 45, Play 150
Drama.

2 - 6 November 1948
The Typewriter
Jeab Cocteau
A police detective is assigned to investigate the case of a "poison pen" campaign in a small town in France.
PP 184, LT 46, Play 151
Drama.
Translated by Ronald Duncan from the play "La Machine à Ecrire".

14 - 18 December 1948
Wives And Daughters
Margaret Macnamara
In 1820s England, a young woman's life changes when her father remarries, acting as go-between in her new step-sister's tangled love affairs.
PP 185, LT 47, Play 152
Comedy.
Adapted from the novel "Wives And Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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