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Someone Waiting
Someone Waiting
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Author: Emlyn Williams Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 93 Pub. Date: 1956 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822210541 ISBN-13: 9780822210542 Cast Size: 5 female, 4 male
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About
the Play:
Someone Waiting is a full-length thriller by Emlyn
Williams. Walter Fenn
arrives as tutor to a university student living with his adoptive
parents in a fashionable London apartment. Who is he and what is his
real purpose for being there? Based on a real murder case, the plot
of this Emlyn Williams'
thriller sees a father attempting to inveigle his way into the
household where the murder for
which his
son was hanged took place.
Someone Waiting is a gripping psychological thriller.
Nothing is quite what it seems in this darkly humorous intriguing
murder mystery about a well-off London couple, John and Vera Nedlow,
and their adopted son, Martin, who has just failed his law exams.
Martin's best friend was hanged recently for murdering a young maid
in his parent's home. A private tutor
with a gentle manner is hired to prepare Martin for
his next set of exams. The tutor turns out to be Walter Fenn,
the father of the boy who was unjustly hanged for
murder. As Walter and Martin try to uncover the identity of the
person they believe to be the true murderer, hidden
suspicions and motives come to light in Someone
Waiting, which takes numerous misleading twists and turns in an
atmosphere of delicious surprises and well-fashioned suspense.
Someone Waiting premiered in 1953 at the Royal Court
Theatre in Liverpool. The show moved to Cardiff and then to the West
End of London where it opened in 1953 at Globe Theatre (now Gielgud
Theatre). The play came to Broadway in 1956 at the John Golden
Theatre in New York City. While
the play is rarely performed professionally, it has become a popular
choice for community theatre productions.
Cast: 5 female, 4 male
What people say:
"…a drama of murder and
revenge which stretches suspense from the first moments of the first
act... Before the evening is over you will find you have been misled
several times – but never dishonestly, for playwright Williams has
his tidy mind and is an honorable trickster. And if you can guess
beforehand what will happen at play's end you are smarter than I am."
— New York Daily News
About the Playwright:
Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) was an acclaimed Welsh writer,
director, and actor – and often all three at once. Overall, he
produced dozens of plays, but is best known for his stage thrillers
and his autobiographical play The Corn Is Green. As an actor,
he internationally toured readings from the work of Charles Dickens
and Dylan Thomas, as well as appearing in his own plays, countless
classic and contemporary productions, and forty-one films. In
addition to authoring or co-authoring nineteen screenplays, he wrote,
directed, and appeared in the movie The Last Days of Dolwyn,
which marked the film debut of his fellow Welshman Richard Burton.
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