Books in the French's Acting Edition S. series

Ex-boxer Spinks is myopic, poor and lonely, his one companion being the alcoholic Kingsley. To gain attention, he pretends to win the Lottery and is soon receiving freebies and handouts from people hoping to get a share of his fortune and, for the first time in ages, advances from women.

Donald, a weary Chartered Surveyor, is retiring from the company he's devoted himself to for the last 35 years. Margaret is his unmarried secretary who has devoted herself to Donald. On his last day, Donald plans to do whatever he wants to do. But Mimi, his bored wife has other ideas.

This play focuses on the zany world of the movie extra. Novice Mary is sent to the film shoot of a dubious sci-fi movie. At the early morning call she is initiated by seasoned pros, morose Malcolm and camp Roddy, but with the arrival of wealthy, eccentric Victoria, matters become decidedly wacky.

Two plays set in the offices of Multiple Holdings. Rex, Harry and Osborne form an uncomfortable alliance against the management, as personified by Fletcher. In "We Don't Want to Lose You", Rex is ordered to sack Osborne, and "Cut and Dried" opens with the news that Rex's job is up for grabs.

The sequel to "Run for your wife" finds bigamist taxi driver, John Smith, still keeping both his families blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children have met on the Internet and are determined to see each other. With the help of lodger Stanley, John juggles with the truth.

Double-entendres non-stop as the motley crew of the Grace Brothers department store prepare for a sale of German goods, then depart for their staff holiday at a one-star hotel in Spain. But will the heat, Spanish crumpet, giant woof-n-poofs, and randy revolutionaries prove too much for our lot?

Dorcas looks after her middle-aged brother Vincent who has learning difficulties. She has brought home Gemma, a homeless girl who says she has been raped, but is Gemma telling the truth? Surprisingly, it is Vincent who provides the possible way ahead for Gemma.

"House" and "Garden" are two plays with the same characters running simultaneously in adjacent auditoria. In "House" Teddy Platt, whose marriage is on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ryng-Mayne, and in "Garden", Teddy's jilted mistress threatens suicide as a garden fete is prepared.

Adapted from the novel by Jules Verne, this play tells the story of Phileas Fogg's and his servant, Passepartout's, whistlestop journey, as they try to satisfy a wager that they can travel the world in 80 days. Hindered by bandits and villains and transport problems, will they make the deadline?

When Edward Damson, English playwright, dies in his Aegean home, his son Philip, whom he never acknowledged, begs permission from his stepmother to write his biography. She warns that he will find it painful. Edward's life is mirrored in the Greek myth of Athena and Perseus who slays the Gorgon.

This is an adaptation of the haunting stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Act I comprises "The Little Match Girl" and "The Brave Tin Soldier" and Act II "The Snow Queen". There are 57 named characters with many more numbered characters acting as narrators.

This musical celebrates the rags-to-riches and back to rags story of Viv Nicholson - the working-class Yorkshire lass who, in 1961, won a fortune on the Football Pools.

This take on the National Health Service sees chaos erupt as patients, agency nurses, doctors and sisters battle it out at the start of another busy weekend on the under-funded and under-staffed mixed ward at St Christopher's Hospital.

David Lawson, a research scientist, is not a well man. His sister Beatie thinks his wife Claire doesn't take care of him and journalist Kit Kelly begins to suspect that Claire may be guilty of more than just negligence as her grandmother and first husband died in mysterious circumstances...

A giant builds a high wall around his beautiful garden to prevent the children from playing in it. However, a valuable lesson is taught when the wall keeps the spring from returning and the garden remains in winter all year round. This is an adaptation of Oscar Wildes's short story.

Archie Lee Meighan's cotton gin business is foundering in the face of Silva Vacarro's Syndicate Gin. On the day Archie's furniture is repossessed he takes action, burning down the Syndicate Gin. Silva then pays Archie and his wife Baby Doll a visit, seeing the latter as the key to justice.

Set in London's Criterion Theatre in the Spring of 1941, this play traces the struggles of the cast of Variety bandwagon, a BBC light entertainment show, broadcasting for the first time live to America.

It is the final night of the tour and as the sun sets gently over the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, the women forget their differences as they exchange amusing holiday anecdotes, feelings of happiness and sadness, worries and past histories.

Katie and Edward are on a bird-watching holiday in Belize. They are at a critical point in their relationship and important decisions have to be made. Matters are complicated by Sam, a tour guide who has met and become involved with both Katie and Edward before, on separate visits.

Geraldine and her lover Doug are preparing for the visit of her daughter Sydney who Geraldine is certain is sexually promiscuous. When Sidney arrives, she brings with her Alex who purports to be a cockney living in a squat, however no one in this play is entirely truthful.

Welcome to Ancient Greece and the wedding of Pandora and Epimetheus! When a strange box appears amongst the wedding presents, and curiosity compels Pandora to open it, all manner of evil is released into the world! She grabs the box and runs away causing a mad race to find Pandora and the box.

At first it seems as if journalist Henry Pratt is living a life that is rather small in scope - but all is due to change. A series of events challenge Henry the reporter and Henry the man and by the end of the play he is married and much wiser to the ways of the world.

Piers is a successful middle-aged businessman with a luxury London flat, a couple of Turners hanging on the wall, a pregnant young mistress, Larissa and an enraged middle-aged wife Rosie. When Larissa's husband, Darren, calls on Rosie, the two embittered partners commiserate and plot their revenge.

Leon Winter always spices up his dinner parties with a practical joke or two, so when the electricity cuts out and a mysterious voice booms from the darkness the guests on this particular night do not think the worst. Then shots ring out and the joke turns into a nightmare.

When the sinister Baron Bluebeard sees the lovely Flora Rockbottom he only has one thought - he wants to marry her. However, his intentions are far from honourable. It is up to her sweetheart Robin Reliant to rescue her, along with all Bluebeard's previous wives.

This introduction to theatre for small children uses the simple plot of a birthday party, complete with entertainer. The puppy and his animal friends teach and reflect children's early experience such as guests arriving, present-giving, game-playing and going home thank-yous.

Confusion ensues when Marcel Morisot arrives at the Signac home hoping for a glimpse of his beloved Marie-Celeste, a dancer. Set in 19th-century France, this is a raucous, swiftly-moving comedy of mistaken identities, shotguns and confusion, with an unexpectedly happy ending for all concerned.

"If only I had my life over again." We all say it, but what would we really do differently if we had the chance? The hero of this play gets that chance. At the point of his death, he revisits himself as a teenager, a young man, as a disgruntled middle-aged husband and as a newborn child.

An upturned world slowly rebuilding itself after mass "devastruction". A world without order. A world in which language has returned to a child-like state full of strange words and errors. A strangely world in which men beat their fathers then bed their mothers. Such is the curse of Thebes.