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A mother’s 86th birthday tea is a

desperate affair. She is racked with pain and feels that

she has lived too long, and her daughter feels guilty at not

being able to help. After the party all the old family prejudices

are forced out into the open in a hilarious, painful and

moving picture of a family in turmoil.

The continuation of Dickens’s Christmas story

sees Scrooge one year after he learned the lesson of good will

to all. Now the setting is a court of law, where he has sued the

ghosts for kidnapping, breaking and entering, trespassing,

stalking, emotional distress etc. However, this family comedy

ends with an ingenious moral twist.

Production of a Restoration comedy

- The Recruiting Officer - is in rehearsal at the Sydney Cove

penal colony in 1789. With only two copies of the script,

a cast of convicts, opposition from sadistic officers, and

a leading lady about to be hanged, the production

is in trouble from the start.

The story of the men who enlisted in World War 1

from the industrial town of Accrington. They did not

enlist for mere patriotism - military service provided

a guaranteed income, regular food, and clothing. This

is a local and social history of the men at the front

and the women who were left behind.