Theatre Night Season 2, Episode 5: Not in the Book

Brouhaha

An extract from a current West End theatre production, a farcical comedy set in a far-off country.

The Heart's a Wonder

A Man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.

Living for Pleasure

Expresso Bongo

An unscrupulous small-time promoter discovers a young singer and determines to make him a star.

Eighty in the Shade

Hook, Line and Sinker

A Day in the Life of...

The Long and the Short and the Tall

Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

Fool's Paradise

How Say You?

Let Them Eat Cake

Gilt and Gingerbread

Caught Napping

The Ring of Truth

The Grass Is Greener

A handsome stranger disturbs the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Rhyall.

Rollo

And Suddenly It's Spring

The Amourous Prawn

A general's wife turns his official home into a hotel for wealthy Americans.

The More the Merrier

A Clean Kill