ATV Play ‘We’re Strangers Here’ (1973) – Ian Hendry + Geraldine McEwan – Writer: Eric Chappell
Picture: Ian Hendry and Geraldine McEwan – Signed Still from We’re Strangers Here by Eric Chappell. ATV production.
We’re Strangers Here
First performed on TV with Geraldine McEwen and Ian Hendry as a two-hander and subsequently as a four-hander at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, the play eventually became the popular sitcom Duty Free. The play, like the series, deals with two warring couples on holiday in Spain. As in the original play the scene is set in the sixties and maybe played as a two-hander or four-hander and as a double bill or two one acts.
Characters: Male 2 (40’s) Female 2 (40’s)
Set: A Hotel Bedroom on the Costa del Sol.
Amateur and repertory rights with Josef Weinberger Ltd.
For all other rights contact / Eric Chappell Productions Ltd.
Eric Chappell – Writer
Extract from Eric Chappell’s website:
“Eric Chappell took up full time writing in 1973 after his first stage play, The Banana Box, was produced at the Apollo Theatre, London. The play later inspired the classic TV comedy Rising Damp, winner of the BAFTA award for best situation comedy. In 1979 Eric’s screen version won the Evening Standard Film award for best comedy.
Other television successes include The Squirrels, The Bounder, Home to Roost (all of which won PYE TV awards), Only When I Laugh, Duty Free, Singles, Fiddlers Three and Haggard.
Eric has written over 200 television comedy scripts and more than 20 stage plays which are performed worldwide. He is unquestionably one of the top writers of comedy in Britain today.”
Geraldine McEwan
Geraldine McEwan (1932 – 2015) was one of England’s most talented and versatile actresses. Her extensive theatre career was marked along the way with memorable performances that took risks and broke new ground, such as award-winning productions of The Rivals, The Way of the World, and The Chairs.
Biography
Duty Free
Neil Hendry
Editor, Official Website of Ian Hendry
Further Reading
A detailed account of the life and work of Ian Hendry in the new biography:
Read: ‘Send in the Clowns – The Yo Yo Life Of Ian Hendry’ by Gabriel Hershman
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