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Twist
David Woods is a mild mannered accountant who sees a sensational way of making a fortune by writing a kiss-and-tell biography about his bitchy wife Sarah who is the nation's favourite actress from the hit TV show 'Doctors and Nurses'. He then realises that his book will do even better if she is murdered first! Unfortunately a few obstacles get in his way...
Twist is a hilarious spoof of the much-loved theatrical thriller where nobody is what they seem and nothing is what it should be! With all the ingredients you'd expect of a first class thriller, the cunning twists and turns will take you on a corkscrew ride of suspense and excitement. And just when you think you know what's going to happen next think again, as Twist catches you out one more time before the breath-taking dénouement.
This full length two act stage comedy with a cast of 6 (3 male, 3 female) and one set of a London apartment should appeal to both amateur and professional theatre companies looking for a good evening’s entertainment.
Twist is a hilarious spoof of the much-loved theatrical thriller where nobody is what they seem and nothing is what it should be! With all the ingredients you'd expect of a first class thriller, the cunning twists and turns will take you on a corkscrew ride of suspense and excitement. And just when you think you know what's going to happen next think again, as Twist catches you out one more time before the breath-taking dénouement.
This full length two act stage comedy with a cast of 6 (3 male, 3 female) and one set of a London apartment should appeal to both amateur and professional theatre companies looking for a good evening’s entertainment.
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144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1986
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Miles Tredinnick
7 booksMiles Tredinnick's stage plays include Twist, It’s Now or Never!, Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami!, and the four one-act Topless plays set on open-top sightseeing buses in London, Philadelphia, Sydney, and Las Vegas. For BBC1 TV, he created and wrote the comedy series Wyatt's Watchdogs and was a writer on the show Birds of a Feather. In addition he wrote stage and television material for Frankie Howerd including the Channel 4 TV special Superfrank and the stage comedy Up Pompeii. Fripp is his first novel. He is also the lead singer Riff Regan in the English punk band London. His debut solo album Milestones was released in 2015. More info at www.MilesTredinnick.com
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April 24, 2021
‘Carry On’ humour and nostalgia.
I never saw the Frankie Howerd original series, sadly, but the style, the board and dirty humour, the theatre approach, it's both familiar and my sort of thing.
To listen to an homage, 50 years later, well, it felt like I could have been in the audience at the time. There may be references to texting and modern new-fangled technology, but I don't think the jokes have changed.
In fact, I'm pretty sure they were almost all recycled from their predecessors.
In Pompei, we are taken through a sex-crazed world of love affairs and subterfuge, of leering, lust and legs. By the Howerd-like narrator, Lurcio, who gets embroiled in his master's liaisons, and those of everyone else with too much time (and too many hormones) on their hands. Now is that their temperature rising, of that of the nearby volcano?
Loved listening to this, I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived through. I especially loved the moments of ad lib when actors forgot or missed lines and the cast has to compensate. But the whole thing is funny, from the Life of Brian-like names (Voluptua, Erotica) to the over-the-top lasciviousness and antiquated sexual attitudes.
Much fun. Not to be taken seriously. Or as historical fact.
With thanks to Nudge books for providing a sample Audible copy.
I never saw the Frankie Howerd original series, sadly, but the style, the board and dirty humour, the theatre approach, it's both familiar and my sort of thing.
To listen to an homage, 50 years later, well, it felt like I could have been in the audience at the time. There may be references to texting and modern new-fangled technology, but I don't think the jokes have changed.
In fact, I'm pretty sure they were almost all recycled from their predecessors.
In Pompei, we are taken through a sex-crazed world of love affairs and subterfuge, of leering, lust and legs. By the Howerd-like narrator, Lurcio, who gets embroiled in his master's liaisons, and those of everyone else with too much time (and too many hormones) on their hands. Now is that their temperature rising, of that of the nearby volcano?
Loved listening to this, I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived through. I especially loved the moments of ad lib when actors forgot or missed lines and the cast has to compensate. But the whole thing is funny, from the Life of Brian-like names (Voluptua, Erotica) to the over-the-top lasciviousness and antiquated sexual attitudes.
Much fun. Not to be taken seriously. Or as historical fact.
With thanks to Nudge books for providing a sample Audible copy.
May 31, 2015
The difference between innuendo and smut is a very fine line. The original TV series and film of Up Pompeii knew where that line was and managed to keep on the correct side of it. Most of the time this play doesn't.
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