David Cregan: Three Plays

David Cregan was born in 1931. He worked as an actor, teacher and playwright and had written plays for radio and TV. His plays include Miniatures, Transcending and The Dancers, Three Men For Colverton, The Houses By the Green, all performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and A Comedy of the Changing Years, which opened the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court in 1969. Subsequent plays, including Tipper, The Land of Palms, Poor Tom, Cast Off, and the children's play, How We Held the Square, were performed in various fringe and regional theatres up to the late seventies. There then followed a close relationship with The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, a theatre-in-the-round, where plays such as Poor Tom, Tigers, Tina, Young Sir, Nice Dorothy, The Last Thrash, and most recently Whispers Along the Patio (2001) have been performed.

Includes the plays Whispers Along the Patio, Nice Dorothy, The Last ThrashIn Whispers Along the Patio retired Matthew is happy eating his breakfast on his patio in the morning sunlight. However, constant interruptions from his do-gooding niece, June, force him to seek sanctuary in Kew Gardens. There he meets young businessman Tony and Tania, a beautiful but bewildering visitor from south-east Europe.Two paintings and a bizarre set of events bring five very different and lonely people together to dine by candlelight. But will the pursuit of private passions cause chaos among this disparate company?In Nice Dorothy matters are complicated when a 40 year old spinster and a young man of 25 fall in love across a crowded room.The Last Thrash is set in a prep school upset by the discovery of a pupil smoking cannabis just as a minor royal is about to attend the school. It isa comic critique of the propagation of the class system within private education.