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"Tonight at 8.30" by Noel Coward consists of 10 short plays from which the three below have been chosen.

Still Life
Against a background of the spirited flirtation between the ticket collector and Myrtle, who serves the refreshments, we see the pitiful love affair of Alec Harvey and Laura Jesson, its tentative beginnings and inevitable end. The play was made into the film Brief Encounter.

Hands Across The Sea
Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr and Mrs Wadhurst from the Far East.

Fumed Oak
Henry Gow was tricked into marrying his awful wife Doris and for years now he has loathed her and their adenoidal child Elsie and his utterly repulsive mother-in-law Mrs Rockett. The play opens at breakfast with the family at their most downtrodden but is the worm about to turn?