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Tomb with a View, A

  • Norman Robbins
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 6M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573114519

"Laughter with a chilly spine."

Sussex Express, 25.05.79

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre
A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family one member of which has were wolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar and a third member is a gentle old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds.

By the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast and what about the sympathetic nurse and the author of romantic novels are they all, or more than, they seem to be? All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.
REVIEWS:

"This is a well written and well constructed play with more twists and turns than a corkscrew and you will never work out who the murderer is, so you have to wait to the end of the play to find out."

 Seaford and Newhaven News, May 2013

"Laughter with a chilly spine."

 Sussex Express, 25.05.79

Premiere Production: 24th October, 1977. St. Giles Player
To date, over 1,760 productions worldwide with translations in German and Dutch.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors
  • Casting Notes: All of the Tomb characters are 'over the top' but take themselves seriously.

HAMILTON PENWORTHY - 70s
LUCIEN TOMB - 50s
DORA TOMB - 49 looks 60
EMILY TOMB - mid 40s
MARCUS TOMB - mid 40s
ANNE FRANKLIN - mid 20s
AGATHA HAMMOND - mid 60s
FREDA MOUNTJOY - 40 - 50
PEREGRINE POTTER - mid 30s
MONICA TOMB - mid 30s

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A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family one member of which has were wolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar and a third member is a gentle old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds. By the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast and what about the sympathetic nurse and the author of romantic novels are they all, or more than, they seem to be? All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.

$24.95

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