LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jimmie chinn

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  • A Different Way Home - A Play
    Jimmie Chinn
    In this deeply moving and astutely observed play, we hear two monologues from two members of a family in a small, closely-knit, North of England town.1woman, 1 man ...
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    19,41 €

  • The Garden Party - A Play
    Hazel Wyld / Jimmie Chinn
    It is Richard’s seventieth birthday. To his Isle of Wight home come his children - Sam, unhappily married, and bringing her autistic son, Miles; Charlie, a discontented alcoholic with numerous chips on his shoulder; and Ben, whose generosity and sense of fun draw attention away from a mystery at the heart of his life. With Ben arrives Brice, an expected addition to the party an...
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    18,73 €

  • Sylvia’s Wedding
    Jimmie Chinn
    Sylvia’s Wedding is yet another clear-sighted and even-handed drama written by the splendid Jimmie Chinn with all his customary wit, humanity and keenness of observation. Gordon proposes to Sylvia, after ten years of courting, and throws his family, and Sylvia’s, into turmoil. Joyce and Vic, Sylvia’s parents, are hardly the sort of people Gordon’s pompous father, Stanley, wants...
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    18,81 €

  • Albert Make Us Laugh
    Jimmie Chinn
    Meet Albert Nuttall, aged eleven. Some would say that he is backward and at first glance, you’d agree - but Albert is special. He is a poet and a visionary who, as he grows into puberty and manhood, inspires unexpected depths of emotion in other people - notably his classmate, Primrose Macaveney, whose glorious future as a musical actress fails to materialize, and the lost and ...
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    18,57 €

  • Something to Remember You By
    Jimmie Chinn
    In Something To Remember You By we enter the strange and lonely world of Armstrong Armstrong. Struggling to become a writer and convinced that he is ugly and scarred, Armstrong can find escape only at the cinema, and in his absent father’s collection of records. Meeting Venetia, the very image of his favourite female singer, Armstrong begins to believe that happiness is possibl...
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    18,64 €

  • After September - A Play
    Jimmie Chinn
    The staff of the Gwendolen Kyte School for Girls are an odd assortment of social misfits and eccentric types. Returning for a new term the teachers face a catalogue of catastrophe, and tension reaches breaking point when a government inspector arrives with anonymous letters defaming the school as outmoded, old-fashioned and unsafe, and the staff as unqualified.10 women, 1 man ...
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    18,54 €

  • In By the Half
    Jimmie Chinn
    Madam, once a distinguished actress, lives in seclusion in a cottage in West London, looked after by her housekeeper and ex-dresser, Doris. Their peaceful routine includes regular visits from the doctor and the insipid Sylvia, who takes acting lessons from Madam. Life for these ladies has become a well-regulated, quiet experience. One day, however, a surprise visitor arrives - ...
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    14,12 €

  • Home Before Dark - or The Saga of Miss Edie Hill
    Jimmie Chinn
    In this heart-warming and emotional portrait of a small cotton mill town in Lancashire, Edie Hill is essentially protrayed as a tragic heroine: she works hard all her life, raises an illegitimate son, and loses her family one by one as they fall victim to the cotton dust from years spent labouring at the mill. At the same time, however, Edie is a truly funny character, and the ...
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    18,70 €

  • Straight and Narrow
    Jimmie Chinn
    The central characters are Bob and Jeff. The cosy domesticity of these lovers is threatened by Jeff’s crisis. Jeff is considering leaving Bob.... but for a woman, so that he can become a father. Meanwhile, Bob contends with meddling family members who are ignorant of his living situation. His mother, a domineering comic creation, complicates matters by pressing Bob to get marri...
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    18,45 €

  • But Yesterday - A Play
    Jimmie Chinn
    But Yesterday is a haunting, enigmatic one act play from the sensitive pen of successful playwright, Jimmie Chinn. Set in a vicarage garden, the time is the fifties and before. Prior to leaving on a journey from which he will not return, Robert comes back to the garden of his childhood and relives moments from the past, which become mingled with the present.3 women, 2 men ...
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    13,94 €

  • In Room Five Hundred and Four
    Jimmie Chinn
    Sitting in a seedy seaside boarding house room, Older Edie reminisces over the past. Out of her memory step a younger Edie and Harry on their wedding day in February 1942. Together, the young couple discover life’s big truths in the span of one night; the day after, Harry will leave for the front, never to return. The uncertainties of their relationship mirror the wider unpredi...
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    14,06 €

  • Pity About Kitty - A Play
    Jimmie Chinn
    Staff Nurse Kitty, popular, good-natured and ever willing to help, is giving evidence at a medical tribunal investigating a patient’s death. Suddenly she finds herself carried along by events that she hardly comprehends and is condemned before she can even defend herself. Support which she felt that she could count on diminishes in the cause of self-interest, and helpful deeds ...
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    14,22 €

  • Interior Designs
    Jimmie Chinn
    'First presented at the Duke’s Head, Richmond Surrey, on 6th April, 1987, under the title Three into one'--Prelim. p. ...
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    14,03 €

  • Too Long An Autumn
    Jimmie Chinn
    Long Autumn, appropriately named, is a retirement home for theatricals in the autumn of their lives, where euphemism reigns supreme, together with a firm belief that elderly equals senile. Into their midst is flung Maisie May, a former music-hall star, too much of a burden for her strait-laced son and daughter-in-law, who do not find Maisie amusing. Initially the ever-cheerful,...
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    14,03 €

  • Take Away the Lady - A play of suspense
    Jimmie Chinn
    Intriguing glimpses into a cupboard full of family skeletons, together with some serious, and not so serious, detective work, combine in this unusual suspense play, to keep everyone guessing until the very last page! Returning home from prison, after serving fifteen years for allegedly murdering his mother, Matthew finds his three sisters, his wife and his father waiting for hi...
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    18,34 €

  • A Respectable Funeral - A Play
    Jimmie Chinn
    A Respectable Funeral is one of the first one act plays from the sensitive and humorous pen of Jimmie Chinn. It was presented and performed as a double bill - with one of Mr Chinn’s other plays, From Here To The Library - under the title of Back To Back in Oldham. Both plays can be performed separately or as an entertaining double bill.3 women, 1 man ...
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    14,00 €

  • From Here to the Library
    Jimmie Chinn
    Beryl Tidy, whose life is dominated by her elderly, irascible and demanding father, works at the library and finds that it is her only escape. She has a new boss at the library, Mr Gostilow, who has just moved to the North from London. When Beryl storms out of work after an uncharacteristic fit of temper and fails to return, Gostilow visits her to find out why. Despite the idio...
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    13,90 €