After October

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Hampstead, 1936. In a shabby basement flat, aspiring playwright Clive Monkhams dreams of a West End hit and winning Francies heart. With opening night approaching and finances fast running out, everything rides on the success of the play and, for Clive, the future looks all too glittering

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Rodney Ackland is a dramatist with a genuine gift. -- W. A. Darlington * The Telegraph *
Mr. Ackland knows the ripple of this kind of life, its mixture of telephone and tattle, its hysterical hopes, its bitter but brief disenchantments. -- Ivor Brown * The Observer *

Author Bio

Playwright Rodney Ackland (1908-1991) was 21 when his first play Improper People was produced at the Arts Theatre Club in 1929. He became a leading West End playwright just three years later when John Gielgud transferred Strange Orchestra to the West End. He went on to many other West End successes, but his work fell into virtual obscurity for three decades until The Dark River (1943) was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 1984. Other revivals followed, most notably Absolute Hell (1952).