Books by Richard Everett

Returning home after a disastrous and abandoned visit to the theatre, hi-jacked by Gerry's lively mother, Mary, Gerry and Kate attempt to salvage the evening at a local restaurant - but it just makes a bad evening out into a worse one. Daughter Louise and her boyfriend Julian are key players in this comedy of marital mishap and mid-life crisis, as are Mary and her beau, Roy. However, the end of this amusing and highly perceptive play finds Gerry and Kate caught on the sofa for all the world themselves like mischievous teenagers.|3 women, 3 men

Maddie has something important to confess to her husband David, but he is not in the mood to listen. Maddie's desperate attempts to get his attention initially fail and when she finally gets through to him and makes her confession, David's reaction is both unexpected and extreme. It is not what Maddie had anticipated or hoped for and as David's response becomes increasingly more bizarre, what unfolds is an evening that neither of them had expected. This darkly comedic and beautifully observed study of infidelity probes a marriage in crisis with touching insight and wit.| 2 women, 2 men

A pregnant wife is loath to inform her husband in case it jeopardises his career. Telling the neighbours, however, does not help…|3 women, 3 men

Frances, Howard and Rachel have always believed that their father, David, died in a boating accident when they were children...but he didn't. When the three siblings gather to clear out the house of their recently deceased mother, several long-hidden secrets are revealed, but none of the skeletons to fall from their collective closets is more tangible or more shocking than David, who arrives with the news that the house is, in fact, now his.2 women, 3 men

A warm and serious family comedy from acclaimed playwright Richard Everett.