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English playwright and author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998.  
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''uddenly at Home'' written 1973 by English playwright and author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998). 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.
 
 
 
Different characters weave in and out, causing mayhem
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
  
 
Published by Samuel French.
 
Published by Samuel French.
  
 
Presented by [[Toerien-Firth Company]] in the [[Nico Malan Theatre]] in 1973, directed by David Poulsen.
 
Presented by [[Toerien-Firth Company]] in the [[Nico Malan Theatre]] in 1973, directed by David Poulsen.
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 20:55, 16 December 2013

uddenly at Home written 1973 by English playwright and author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998). 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.

Presented by Toerien-Firth Company in the Nico Malan Theatre in 1973, directed by David Poulsen.

Sources

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

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

Nico malan Theatre pamphlet, August 1973.


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