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Office Suite archiveA suite of playlets including "A Visit From Miss Prothero" and "Green Forms", much in the same style as his Talking Heads plays.A Visit from Miss Prothero - Widowed and retired from Warburtons, where he was a mainstay of management systems, Mr Dodsworth is content to potter, chat to Millie, his budgie, and branch out into evening classes in cordon bleu cookery. An unexpected visit from his one time colleague MIss Prothero, determined to fill him in on what's been happening in the old firm - and she doesn't just mean Maureen's baby - shake his world. Yes, the winds of change are blowing through Warburtons. Green Forms - Colleagues Doreen and Doris are comfortably installed in an obscure department in a large corporation, passing time with talk of artificial hips and rubber plants, punctuated with occasional filing and form filling, when a shadow falls over their settled lives - the shadow of Dorothy Binns from Newport Pagnell and the trail of change she leaves in her corporate wake. In the first of these brilliant one-act plays, A Visit From Miss Prothero, Arthur Dodsworth is pottering around at home, enjoying some time to himself. Now retired after thirty years at Warburton's he had thought he'd moved on to new worlds; pottery classes, bowling and looking after the budgie. But when Miss Prothero calls in unexpectedly to fill him in on what has happened to the old firm in his absence, he can hardly believe what he is hearing. In Green Forms Doris and Doreen face a dilemma. Surely the green form is not intended for Precepts and Invoices? It looks as if the dreaded influence of Newport Pagnell may be about to intrude on their cushy working day where the major concern until now has been whether or not it is Personnel who have pinched their washbasin plug!

Cast/Performers

Lesley Joseph, Edward Hardwicke

Creatives/Company

Author: Alan Bennett
Producer: Theatre Royal Bath Productions
Director: Lawrence Till
Design: Richard Foxton
Lighting: Nick Beadle

Office Suite

Office Suite (Play) production archive for QTIX code T01882465946. Details of all Office Suite archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S4419

Archive Listings

28 Jul 03
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2 Aug 03
Theatre Royal
Brighton, East Sussex
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22 Jul 03
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26 Jul 03
Theatre Royal
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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14 Jul 03
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19 Jul 03
Richmond Theatre
Outer London, Greater London
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7 Jul 03
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12 Jul 03
New Theatre
Cardiff, Glamorgan
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30 Jun 03
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5 Jul 03
Churchill Theatre
Bromley, Kent
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31 Mar 03
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5 Apr 03
Everyman Theatre
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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24 Mar 03
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29 Mar 03
Arts Theatre
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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10 Mar 03
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15 Mar 03
Chelmsford Theatre
Chelmsford, Essex
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3 Mar 03
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8 Mar 03
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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24 Feb 03
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1 Mar 03
Belgrade Theatre
Coventry, West Midlands
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17 Feb 03
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22 Feb 03
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Guildford, Surrey
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11 Feb 03
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15 Feb 03
Theatre Royal
Bath, Bath & North East Somerset
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