About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Life and Beth, Things That Go Bump, The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II, Big Bad Mouse, Fram, The Female of the Species, Ruined, Calendar Girls, Her Naked Skin, Be Like Water, Superior Donuts, Lost Soul Music, Happy Now?, Saturn's Return, Plague Over England, Arias with a Twist, That Face, Reasons to be pretty, The Hatpin, Body Awareness, Looped, The Marriage Counselor, Never So Good, Almost an Evening, Deep Cut, Faces in the Crowd, Lord Arthur's Bed, The secrets inside, Jerk, I'll Be The Devil, Afterlife, In Gabriel's Kitchen, Becky Shaw, Farragut North, Little Gem, Saturn Returns, The Diver, Gethsemane, Aristo, Dance Without Movement, The Pattern of Painful Adventures, Under The Blue Sky, Iesu!, Awaking Beauty, The Syringa Tree, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Hey Girl!, The K of D, Piranha Heights, Lucky You, Kaikkien aikojen Pertsa ja Kilu, The Inner Worlds, Biblen, Korpraali Reidin Miekka. Excerpt: Life and Beth is a 2008 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It was written as a third part of a trilogy named Things That Go Bump, uniting the cast of the first two plays: Haunting Julia (1994) and Snake in the Grass (2002). It is about a recently bereaved widow, Beth, troubled by her family's misguided support and a late husband who won't leave her alone. The history of this play dates back to 1994, when Haunting Julia was premiered. The cast was three men, but the play was dominated by Julia, once a gifted musician, now a ghost. In 2002, a female companion piece was premiered, named Snake in the Grass, with a cast of three women in a play dominated by the ghost of the father of two of them (and a much less savoury character than Julia). For some time, Alan Ayckbourn had considered writing a third play with a supernatural that combined the casts of these plays, but it was only after Sus...
