The Jackson are a nice middle aged English couple. Their best friends are their Canadian neighbors, the Krogers. All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area. The Jacksons become more and more put out as Scotland Yard's demands on them increase. They are really put to the test when the detective reveals that the spies are the Krogers and he asks them to help set a trap. Should they betray their friends?

Pack of Lies - A Play

Literature & Fiction

Whitemore, Hugh

Dramas & Plays

Samuel. French

Smith commutes to the West End to her work as a secretary at a publishing company. Her evenings are spent at home with her beloved aunt - a world of battenberg cake, gossip, ginger nuts and sherry in tiny glasses. But at the same time as leading this seemingly mundane suburban existence, she is writing the piercing poetry and prose that will one day make her famous. Stevie is a biographical snapshot of both the poet and the private woman. Shot through with wit, this is the story of an endearing heroine, her unconventional life, powerful and popular poetry and her greatest struggle: to keep waving and not drowning.

Stevie

Samuel French Ltd.

Drama / 7m, 2f / Unit set 
Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called Enigma, enabling allied forces to foresee German maneuvers. Since his work was classified top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code the taboo against homosexuality. Turing, who was also the first to conceive of computers, was convicted of the criminal act of homosexuality and sentenced to undergo hormone treatments which left him physically and mentally debilitated. He died a suicide, forgotten and alone. This play is about who he was, what happened to him and why. 
"Powerful, rivetting drama." N.Y. Daily News 
"Elegant and poignant." Time Magazine 
"The most important serious play of the season." Christian Science Monitor

Breaking the Code

Concord Theatricals

The Best of Friends

Samuel French Inc Plays

Starring: Rosalind Ayres, Martin Jarvis, and Julian Sands 112 Minutes on 2 CDs Actual events during the Cold War inspired this thriller that takes place in a suburb of London during the autumn and winter of 1960-1961. Loyalty, duty and friendship collide when the Jacksons slowly discover the Krogers, their neighbors and cherished friends, are not what they appear. A gripping play that may leave you wondering what it is those nice people next door are really up to.

Pack of lies (Plays)

Amber Lane Press Ltd.

Pack of Lies: School Edition (Oberon Modern Plays)

Oberon Books

Hugh Whitemore’s classic play is a powerfully moving, fictional account of the events leading up to the arrest of Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, who were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. The action centres on the quietly respectable, totally unsuspecting Jackson household - Bob, Barbara and daughter Julie - who live opposite the Kroger's and consider them their closest friends.When an MI5 official arrives suddenly and coerces the Jackson into allowing their house to be used as a surveillance post the decent, happy life is shattered as the are plunged into a sordid, alien world of deceit and intrigue, gradually learning the truth about their much-loved, trusted friends. Eventually Barbara reaches breaking point in the agonising realisation that the Kroger's have betrayed her and she has betrayed the Kroger's.

Pack of Lies (Oberon Modern Plays)

The acclaimed, Tony Award-winning play about groundbreaking mathematician Alan Turing, the father of computer science. The vivid and compassionate story moves fluidly through time, following Turing as he cracks the German Enigma code during World War II and wrestles with his homosexuality and English codes of sexual discretion.

Britain, 1956. Prime Minister Anthony Eden is faced with the terrible possibility of leading his country into war. His health is collapsing and his colleagues and opponents are facing crises of their own. Hugh Whitemore's new play is a suspenseful thriller, an achingly romantic love story and a fascinating examination of a flashpoint in our history which still resonates today.

A Marvellous Year for Plums (Oberon Modern Plays)

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Pack of Lies - A Play

Stevie

Breaking the Code

The Best of Friends

Pack of lies (Plays)

Pack of Lies: School Edition (Oberon Modern Plays)

Pack of Lies (Oberon Modern Plays)

Breaking the Code

A Marvellous Year for Plums (Oberon Modern Plays)