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''[[Suddenly at Home]]'' is a play written in 1973 by English playwright and author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Durbridge]. It is an eight-person play set in the 1970s Great Britain, telling a white-knuckle story of love and greed. Maggie Howard is an extremely wealthy woman and doesn’t mind letting people know it. Her husband Glen Howard is unsatisfied with his life and craves a fresh start, one filled with money and prospect. It seems the only way to reach his idyllic dream is by murdering his wife.
Written 1973
 
Setting set in the 1970’s GB
 
Overview "Suddenly at Home" is an eight-person play telling a white-knuckle story of love and greed.
 
This explosive narrative is magnetic for audiences. Ignited with lust, wrath and greed, it will have you permanently on the edge of your seat and relieved to see the curtain call!
 
  
Suddenly At home is set in the 1970’s. Maggie Howard is an extremely wealthy woman and doesn’t mind letting people know it. Her husband Glen Howard is unsatisfied with his life and craves a fresh start, one filled with money and prospect. It seems the only way to reach his idyllic dream is by murdering his wife.
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Published by Samuel French.
  
Different characters weave in and out, causing mayhem
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
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1973: Presented by [[Toerien-Firth Company]] at the [[Intimate Theatre]], Johannesburg, and at the [[Nico Malan Theatre]], Cape Town, in 1973, directed by [[David Poulson]] starring visiting West End actors Gary Raymond [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Raymond] and Delena Kidd [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delena_Kidd].
  
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== Sources ==
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http://www.castingcallpro.com/uk/play_view.php?uid=1298
  
Francis Durbridge's play, Suddenly At Home, is a thriller for four men and four women. When Glenn Howard, a busy executive, decides to get rid of his wealthy wife Maggie, firstly to enjoy her money, secondly to avoid spending the rest of his life in boring luxury in remote Bermuda, and thirdly to free himself for another woman, he works out a complicated and devious plan to keep himself in the clear.
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http://www.greville.org.uk/suddenly.htm
  
Published by Samuel French
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Nico Malan Theatre pamphlet, August 1973.
  
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[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. 290.
  
== Sources ==
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Material held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 30. 11.
http://www.castingcallpro.com/uk/play_view.php?uid=1298
 
  
http://www.greville.org.uk/suddenly.htm
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''[[The Star]]'', 24 March 2009.
  
   
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Latest revision as of 07:42, 5 September 2019

Suddenly at Home is a play written in 1973 by English playwright and author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998) [1]. It is an eight-person play set in the 1970s Great Britain, telling a white-knuckle story of love and greed. Maggie Howard is an extremely wealthy woman and doesn’t mind letting people know it. Her husband Glen Howard is unsatisfied with his life and craves a fresh start, one filled with money and prospect. It seems the only way to reach his idyllic dream is by murdering his wife.

Published by Samuel French.

Performance history in South Africa

1973: Presented by Toerien-Firth Company at the Intimate Theatre, Johannesburg, and at the Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town, in 1973, directed by David Poulson starring visiting West End actors Gary Raymond [2] and Delena Kidd [3].

Sources

http://www.castingcallpro.com/uk/play_view.php?uid=1298

http://www.greville.org.uk/suddenly.htm

Nico Malan Theatre pamphlet, August 1973.

Tucker, 1997. 290.

Material held by NELM: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 30. 11.

The Star, 24 March 2009.

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