Lettice douffet a lady in middle life working as a tour guide in the most boring castle in all of england. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Join miss lettice douffet and miss lotte schoen for a series of hilarious capers as they discover a devilish friendship in their fight. As a tour guide at fustian house, one of the least stately of londons stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of lotte schon, an inspector from the preservation trust. Lettice and lovage redtwist theatre thru nov 8, 2009. Lettice and lovage download free pdf and ebook by peter. Lettice and lovage a comedy acting edition shaffer, peter on. It is centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an english country house and who butts heads with a factconscious official at the house. Directed by craig martin january 20 february 4, 2017 7654237529.
Be prepared to read from the script sides will be provided. As a tour guide at fustian house, one of the least stately of londons stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. When you are ready to print, please highlight, copy, and paste into a document. For more information about special series and for tickets, call 2032274177 or visit. Lettice and lovage is a story of enduring friendship between two older women. Take one part odd couple, add a dash of downton abbey, a spritz of thelma and louise, and garnish it with a beheading. Lettice and lovage a comedy acting edition peter shaffer on. Such is the mantra of sir peter shaffers delightful play, lettice and lovage, which opens at lakewood theatre company friday, march 12, 2010. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Lettice, an impoverished gentlewoman of the 1970s is living hand to mouth. Lettice and lovage by peter schaffer a fun play and i would really like to see the movie with maggie smith as lettice.
I knew it was written by peter shaffer black comedy, equus, amadeus, etc. If you just hit print every single monologue will print humorous all kiding aside bumsevelyn bumsmary bus stop coupla chicks. Lettice duffet, an expert on elizabethan cuisine and medieval we. Careful considerations of his serious works five finger exercise, royal hunt of the sun, shrivings, equus, amadeus and yonadab comprise the main portion of this book.
Pdf lettice and lovage download full pdf book download. Lettice and lovage runs approximately two hours and forty minutes. Lettice and lovage available for download and read online in other formats. This charming and hilarious british comedy won tony awards in 1990 for its lead actors and.
Lettice and lovage official trailer westportplayhouse. Open daisys can be read by anyone in the world on many. Peter shaffer remains among the most successful dramatists of the late twentieth century. Free talk back after the show on friday 2 and friday 16 march. Lettice and lovage contrasts dreamer and free spirit lettice douffet with bureaucrat lotte schoen, a rigid realist. The psychiatrist dysart and the composer salieri, the protagonists of shaffers most successful plays, are overcivilized men, each faced with a figure of tormented inspirationthe horse mutilator strang and the simpering and sublime wolfgang amadeus mozart see vol. Kendal plays lettice douffet, a tour guide at the most boring stately home in britain, who feels compelled to embellish her script. The internet archive is proud to be distributing over 1 million books free in a format called daisy, designed for those of us who find it challenging to use regular printed media there are two types of daisys on open library. We are promise love the lettice and lovage aup561172020. If you just hit print every single monologue will print humorous all kiding aside bumsevelyn bums.
However, if an actor prefers, bring a prepared comic monologue in an english accent up to one minute in length. Schoen clearly feels guilty about the firing and, some time later, visits lettice to aid in her. Another monologue in which lettice gives her own imaginative version of the family history. If you are considering a play for community theatre, look no further. Lettice and lovage is centered around a flamboyant tour guide, lettice duffet, an expert on elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, who embellishes the history behind the english country house she works in because of its extreme dullness. Lettice is summoned to schoens office and, despite an eloquent, fantastical defense, is fired. Head on up to gloucester stage and treat yourself to their 37th season opener, tony awardwinner peter shaffers slight but delicious lettice and lovage about two women who forge a friendship as they mount an attack on the modern world with their love of roleplaying and romance. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Decrying the rapid modernization of britain and the loss of historical properties, the play sets up an unlikely alliance between two. Lettice and lovage by peter shaffer, center stage theater, santa barbara ca, september 8 16, 2018. Lettice begins to embellish its historical past and.
Lettice and lovage will be directed by diane englert. The information below is intended to give you a brief guide to the show and highlight some of the other the mandy network members who have also been involved in. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital. If you are a fan of the ever witty and clever british humor, then this is the perfect read for you. These roles are available for this production of lettice and lovage. The director will cast based on the audition, regardless of race. For best results use quotation marks eg hamlet or william shakespeare search. Lettice and lovage runs at the westport country playhouse through june 17.
Lotte is a stickinthemud bureaucrat incensed at the lies and has lettice fired. Lettice and lovage is a comical and satirical play by peter shaffer. Lettice is a vivacious tour guide at a rather hohum historical manor, who grabs and keeps tourists attention with fantastic and hilariously false tales of the manors past. Org ebook and manual reference popular ebook you want to read is lettice and lovage aup561172020. Together, barney, we blew one of the very few free afternoons we. Script library 2007 george bernard shaw plays free 30day. She has a natural theatricality, exuberance and boldness and suppressing them is nearly impossible. Audition for lettice and lovage 11192017 auditions. Lettice and lovage script lettice and lovage synopsis lovage recipe. Lettice and lovage download free pdf and ebook writer peter shaffer in english published by samuel french ltd. She is a tour guide at fustian house one of the least stately and least interesting of britains stately homes.
Lettice and lovage original, play, comedy, broadway opened in new york city mar 25, 1990 and played through dec 23, 1990. Lettice duffet, and expert on elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable enthusiast of history and the theatre. That is the promise offered by peter shaffers comic play lettice and lovage, written as a star vehicle for dame maggie smith and carried by that formidable actress in the u. She finds herself facetoface with the factconscious official at the house, lotte schoen, who fires her. Together they make for a very fun show that almost covers the script s problems. The performance of lettice and lovage i attended on saturday was a quandary for me. Play details monologues add a monologue trivia directors notes rate this play publishers website. Lettice and lovage theater set design by ruth neeman for both community and professional stage in the greater boston area. A flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an english country house butts heads with a factconscious official at the house. Concerts in the live music archive are available for download and streaming in formats including flac, mp3, and ogg vorbis. It has been long cultivated in europe, the leaves being used as a herb, the roots as a vegetable, and the seeds as.
This amusing bauble of a play is polished to perfection by a dazzling duo oscar. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Lettice duffet, an expert on elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. Lettice and lovage peter shaffer every play in the world. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel.