Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.
En 1961, Stanley Milgram llevó a cabo una serie de experimentos sobre la obediencia en la Universidad de Yale. La investigación, planteada a raíz del juicio a Adolf Eichmann, pretendía dilucidar la relación de las personas con la autoridad. La violencia del experimento hizo que Milgram fuera tildado de sádico y de monstruo.
Después de hacerse famoso interpretando a un célebre superhéroe, un actor trata de darle un nuevo rumbo a su vida, recuperando a su familia y preparándose para el estreno de una obra teatral en Broadway.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
Un joven norteamericano llamado Michael Corben se dispone a viajar a París con la clase de francés del instituto. Ésta es la última oportunidad que tiene para graduarse. En el mismo avión viaja un individuo llamado como él, que resulta ser un espía. Cuando llegan a París, dos miembros del servicio de inteligencia británico confunden al muchacho con su hombre. Ni sus explicaciones, ni sus protestas sirven de nada. Desde ese momento, Michael se ve involucrado en una red de espionaje e intriga.
A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella's father Billy (Norman Kaye) is a former cricket star whose career ended early when he was involved in a sex scandal. She spends the night with vacationing Arthur (Michael Siberry) when his car breaks down. Andy elects not to pop the question to Stella in lieu of her one-night stand with the stranger. When Billy elects to marry June Thompson (Julie Nihill), the local gossipmongers have a field day recalling the woman's promiscuous past.
Jim Ferguson (Neil Dickson), un joven neoyorquino, averigua que tiene un hermano gemelo que vive en otra época: un piloto inglés llamado Biggles (Alex Hyde-White) que combate contra los alemanes en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Cada vez que Biggles se encuentra en peligro, Ferguson retrocederá en el tiempo para salvarlo.
Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of Coward's most popular plays.
The true life story of world champion Willie Pep, the fighter with the most wins in professional boxing and his long-shot journey out of retirement and back into the ring.
