Farce

Characters: 4 male (30s, 50s, 5 female (20s-40s)

Interior Set

The Prime Minister and Chancellor are preparing a puritanical budget taxing amusements such as bingo, gambling and night-clubs out of existence. On the afternoon before its presentation, however, each in turn appears to be the father of the pretty Shirley, the result of a post-party conference night many years ago. In an even less expected family bombshell, it transpires that the Prime Minister's deferential Parliamentary Private Secretary, Campbell, is, in fact, his son ...

James Turle (1802-82) was organist of Westminster Abbey and Edward Taylor (1784-1863) was originally a Norwich musician who later worked as singer, teacher and music critic in London. Their book is subtitled: 'The Art of Singing at Sight taught by Progressive Exercises' and its aim was to equip middle-class families, studying at home, to savour the delights of part-singing, 'the cheapest, the readiest, the most social, the most innocent, the most diversified of amusements'. The authors use musical notation, rather than the many versions of sol-fa, derived from German models where 'every child...

Discover the Power of Positive Self-Talk If you're like most people, you have a desire to live your best life. There are things you would like to do and achieve. Most people desire to have good health, a prosperous career, and harmony with family and friends and a general sense of well being no matter what the challenge is before you. But many of us have an inner critic that is not always supportive of the things we would like to do and achieve. These negative inner voices sometimes tell us for example that we are not good enough or smart enough to do what we want to do in life. This negative...

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