Details of the entries for the Harold Jolliffe One Act Play Festival 2016 are as follows:

Thursday 30 March 2017

Lechlade Players

The Ladies Man

a comedy by Georges Feydeau

While waiting for guests to arrive at her elegant soiree, worldly wise Angelique learns she and her naive young cousin are both expecting to marry the same man, an unprincipled cad with plans of his own.

25 minutes / no offensive content

Further Information

Please see the Lechlade Players Facebook page (www.facebook.com/groups/1078422655502618).

Didcot Phoenix Drama Group

The Lesson

a comic drama by Eugene Ionesco

Written in 1951 as part of the "Theatre of the Absurd" movement, this comic drama depicts a nonsensical encounter between a bright young pupil and an ageing professor who, under the watchful eye of his faithful maid, is not all he seems to be.

40 minutes / no offensive content

Further Information

Please see the Didcot Phoenix Theatre Group website (www.didcotphoenixdrama.co.uk).

Money Makes a Difference

by F Morton Howard

A special rehearsed reading of an excerpt from a play performed at our very first festival in 1947!

Friday 31 March 2017

RWB Productions

Time To Go

a drama by Derek and Paula Clifford

Four strangers find themselves in a waiting room. They do not know why they are there but while with surprising frankness they discuss their lives, the reason becomes apparent.

45 minutes / no offensive content

Further Information

Please see the RWB Productions Facebook page (www.facebook.com/RWBProductions-261110564049960).

Lechlade Players

The Dreaming

a comedy by Richard James

Two men find themselves in a featureless room with no memory of how they arrived there or even who they are. Their only clues come from scraps of paper on the floor that seem to mirror the words.

30 minutes / no offensive content

Further Information

Please see the Lechlade Players Facebook page (www.facebook.com/groups/1078422655502618).

Bishopstoke Players

Nothing You Can Say

written and directed by Peter Yates

Further Information

Please see the Bishopstoke Players website (http://www.bishopstokeplayers.org/).

Saturday 1 April 2017 - Matinee

Pewsey Vale Amateur Dramatics Youth Society

Pond Life

a comedy drama by Nettie Brown

Over one summer a newly planted pond becomes inhabited by a variety of amphibians and plants—but this delicately balanced ecosystem is threatened by an influx of new creatures. Will the ‘Newpond’ residents fight to retain their quiet way of life or is there another way to deal with this crisis?

35 minutes / no offensive content

Further Information

Please see the PVADYS Facebook page (www.facebook.com/PVADS).

C6

Playhouse Creatures

a drama by April De Angelis

The year is 1669 and theatres have just re-opened after 17 years of Puritan suppression. Playhouse Creatures focuses on five of the first and most famous women to appear on stage in a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of Restoration actresses.

(Youth entry.)

55 minutes / strong, infrequent language

Further Information

Please see the C6 website (www.commonwealsixth.co.uk).

Saturday 1 April 2017 - Evening

Lechlade Players

Mixed Doubles

a comedy by Georges Feydeau

Pompe-Nicole and Bordeleau arrive at Chez Dominique, where they encounter an overly friendly maitre d' and his wife. But madness ensues when their dates turn out not to be the ladies they appear...

50 minutes / no offensive content

Further Information

Please see the Lechlade Players Facebook page (www.facebook.com/groups/1078422655502618).

Quirky Bird Theatre

That Face

a drama by Polly Stenham

‘That Face’ tells the story of a family. Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother.

50 minutes / strong, infrequent language

Further Information

Please see the Quirky Bird Theatre website (www.quirkybirdtheatre.com).