Bøker av David Campton

Two ladies living next door to each other share a love of plants, but not of friendship. Mrs Roberts, Everybody's Friend (and busy-body), tries to reconcile the two ladies who have quarrelled over one much-loved plant. However, the ladies become friends, united in their eventual hatred of Mrs Roberts.

Four servants sit solemnly in the kitchen of a large Victorian house. Their Mistress has died suddenly and the cook, discovering that the housekeeper and personal maid have stolen some of her jewellery, demands a share. Reluctantly they agree. Then the bell rings in the Mistress's room...everyone is in the kitchen, so who calls?6 women

Outwardly respectable Mrs Bee does "good work" on the Committee of the Bountiful Bequest, a charity for distressed females. However, unbeknown to the other Committee members, she is financing the charity, and feathering her own nest, by running a branch in Brussels where the younger and prettier girls are transported in dubious circumstances. Blackmail ensues...|6 women

Seemingly lost without a compass, the six members of the group stumble across a large country house. Taking refuge, they find one room with a roaring fire. Truepenny explores, finding desolation and decay, but upon returning to the room encounters another era and takes on the persona of one of the characters. Clegg, too, feels the emotions of that winter of 1917.6 women or men

The characters await death, having been sentenced for witchcraft. It is the late 1600s or early 1700s. Only the Calm Woman remains unmoved. On being questioned, she replies she will not hang. The Devil will look after his own.|4 women, 2 men

This bewitching little play centers on the animosity between two siblings and Mrs. Meadowsweet's solution to their constant quarrelling and bickering. Mrs. Meadowsweet and her homely guest house, Respite, seem to mellow garrulous Alice, much to sister Fleur's suspicion. All of the guests seem particularly amiable and pleasant - in fact, without a care in the world. Fleur's suspicions are further aroused by their inability to remember even the slightest occurrence from their pasts.5 women

The Weerd sisters try to make ends meet through fortune-telling. When Lady M calls, Flora discovers she indeed has the gift of foresight, although she does not like what she sees. The sisters'' fortunes are turned. Lady M returns to learn more but this time the truth is held back.|5 women

A large jeering crowd appears on stage. A Narrator tries to analyse why ordinary people can suddenly be turned into an ugly mob. He describes a series of everyday events that upset people who in turn upset someone else. He asks who upset the first man in the chain. It was the Narrator himself.|5 women, 5 men

The well-known fairies from A Midsummer Night''s Dream and Peter Pan are under continuous attack from the hazard of waste brought by humans. Unexpectedly they stumble on a copse which promises to be a safe haven and yet it seems all is not well. The fairies soon find themselves faced with the prospect of living their lives in public view. Can they escape before it is too late?|6 women or men

Julia Gibbon, a junior minister, is thrown into turmoil by the conflict between private and public morality. Her affair with Penelope Wright, a frank and forthright journalist, very much a thorn-in-the-side of the Establishment, forces Julia to confront insecurities and doubts she never knew she had. This is a compassionate play about love and politics in our hypocritical age.|3 women, 1 man, 3 women or men

For a brief while in an old house, time merges across four centuries. The Wise Woman, from Tudor times, is expecting a Customer who wishes to make use of her apparently extra-sensory powers. By chance two women from the present day happen to intrude on this event of long ago. An antique buckle provides an eerie link between the two widely-separated periods.6 women

With the best of all possible motives, needless to say, Winifred and Una come to "sort through" Aunty Dorothy's things after the funeral, and they find that they have been forestalled! The self-righteousness tinged heavily with greed, and the pretensions and pretences that afflict families at such times are perceptively portrayed in this amusing and touching family play.4 women

As he tidies up an empty stage, the Sweeper is tempted to experiment with the magic power of the theatre--to create life through the exercise of imagination. After a few preliminary tries in summoning up a rabbit and an elephant, the Sweeper plunges ahead and creates a Young Man and a Young Woman. Then, as ever more characters are called for, events begin to go beyond his bewildered control. The most potent forces in human life and society--love, hate, politics, religion--emerge and dominate, and with them the bickering, dissension and decadence which they can engender.5 women, 12 men

In thirty years Grandmamma has not allowed any man to enter her house, forcing seclusion on Mamma and her twin girls. A young man comes into their lives and Grandmamma is made to face her repressed feelings of guilt and both twins are thwarted in their plan to elope with the young man. Mamma finally asserts herself, offering the twins new freedom and some sound advice.5 women

Everyone has their dream, and this is no exception for the six mice living in the loft. Their dreams are conjured up by music as each hears a different tune played by an invisible Piper and each has to answer his call until only Tattymouse, who is completely deaf, is left. A highly original and thought-provoking play.6 women or men

The "parcel" is old, silent, almost immobile Grandma who is passed from one relative to another. They "care for her" from "pure charity." Her house is gone, her beloved piano destroyed. While being passed along, the old woman asserts her rights as an individual and disappears.5 women, 3 men