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''[[The Wages of Sin]]'' is a [[melodrama]] by Andrew Sachs (1930-2016)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sachs].
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#REDIRECT [[The Wages of Sin or Perfidious Piecework]]
 
 
Subtitled ''[[Perfidious Piecework]]''.
 
 
 
[http://www.tads.org.uk/PastProd/WOS/wagesofsin.HTM].
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
Described by on the
 
Tewkesbury Arts & Drama Society website[http://www.tads.org.uk/PastProd/WOS/wagesofsin.HTM] as a "classic melodrama.. [that]..has a Chairman, a good guy, a villain, a pretty girl and everything you expect from a melodrama, including High Drama, a fight, lasciviousness, lust, temptation and horrible deaths.... after being stabbed with a pistol."
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1978: Staged as a lunch-hour presentation at [[Space Theatre|The Space]] (Cape Town) in 1978, directed by [[Nigel Stevenson]] with [[Gillian Burl]], [[Scott Hawker]], [[Corinne Willoughby]] and [[Guy Willoughby]]. The stage manager was [[Pam Mills]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az|Astbury]] 1979.
 
 
 
http://www.tads.org.uk/PastProd/WOS/wagesofsin.HTM
 
 
 
Not listed in plays by German-born British actor and playwright Andrew Sachs [http://audiodrama.wikia.com/wiki/Andrew_Sachs].
 
 
 
''The Sound of Laughter'' by Peter Kay, page 67, referring to the uncertainty of authorship of ''[[The Wages of Sin]]'': [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=L-4KWVoX7skC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=andrew+sachs+wages+of+sin&source=bl&ots=FNWt6jQoCz&sig=ggs8VATAPoLpg29uCPqeLbAc9EE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7lamKgJjKAhUINiYKHURnDfwQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=andrew%20sachs%20wages%20of%20sin&f=false]
 
 
 
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