Charles Robertson

Purchase Sense and Sensibility on Amazon.com This adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel; Sense and Sensibility focuses on the romantic trials and tribulations of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Though she feels deeply, Elinor is the older, apparently more reserved sister. Marianne is outwardly more passionate and romantic. The play opens with the funeral of the elder John Dashwood, father to Elinor and Marianne. Their half-brother, John, inherits their father's entire estate by law. Although their father made him promise to 'take care' of his half-sisters and stepmother, his greedy and selfish wife; Fanny, easily persuades him that this does not actually mean monetary assistance, leaving his step-mother and half-sisters practically destitute, with no dowry and very little to live on. Elinor falls in love with the awkward and shy Edward Ferrars but cannot reveal her true feelings because he has been promised to another. Marianne recklessly falls in love with the...

Click to Purchase this play on Amazon Ghost of the Tree is a powerful and emotionally charged story of seven young women in a cursed family tree. The play opens with a pregnant homeless girl. She has returned to the family home to find it deserted. She is in desperate circumstances. Outside, the ghostly tree which has clung to the side of the house for over a hundred years is finally giving up its life. The play takes us on a journey into the past to uncover the family secrets, the secrets of mothers and daughters, to the beginning, when a terrible crime was committed. This play can be cast for two to eight women. It can easily be adapted as a one-woman play..