Rob Groves has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Espionage!.
Chameleon Sunset: A Comedy Play
Summary
Chameleon Sunset is a period comedy stage play, set in a Sussex manor house and a London art gallery in 1934. It is the Annual Public Open Day at Donnington Hall, Sussex. Advanced in years, adventuress Leonora Bradshaw has just returned from her latest expedition in South America to help her sister Isobel, Lady Donnington, to run the Donnington estate. The sisters are both recently widowed. Isobel is finding estate management a heavy burden, due in part to the lassitude of her son, Dorian, a would-be modern artist of the Mondrian school. At the beginning of the play, we join confidence trickster to the gentry, Percy Burrows, and his daughter, Florence, as they break away from the public tour of the manor. Although set in the 1930s world of modern art, this play deals with topics that are equally relevant to today's Britain. Chameleon Sunset satirises issues of heredity versus environment, class distinctions, ethics and morals. It explores the nature of becoming an adult, and what it means to be a mother. All done with gentle humour. Think Downton Abbey but with way more laughs!
©2017 Simon Godziek & Rob Groves (P)2017 Simon Godziek & Rob Groves
The Unrest Cure
Summary
When a young brother and sister decide to effect an Unrest Cure on the prematurely middle-aged proprietors of a country hotel, success seems assured. Until, that is, the arrival of an unexpected guest.... Originating from a story idea by Saki, and further inspired by various archetypes from the novels of PG Wodehouse, the plot is embellished, extended, and moved to 1932 and a small Dorset village. The dialogue is very much of the period, faithfully recreating the cadence, slang, and expressions of the time. This play was the first produced by Plum Roll Productions and received fantastic reviews, leading to full houses and breaking box office records for the lovely Pentameters theatre in North West London.
©2017 Rob Groves and Simon Godziek (P)2017 Rob Groves and Simon Godziek
Espionage!
Summary
Espionage! is a period comedy stage play set in London and Porthmadog in 1938. A committee of military personnel with checkered histories has been mysteriously assembled by the British Secret Intelligence Service, ostensibly to flush out a mole suspected of sharing secrets with the Nazis. The action switches between this intriguing plot and the real-life story of the playwright who is writing this stage play, detailing his battles with the show's producer and investor as they race to meet a deadline for rehearsals and opening night. The characters in the play-within-a-play portray aspects of the characters in the over-arcing story line relating to the playwright and his employers, and are also used to verbalize the thoughts of the writer. This is a truly unique construct, making this a quite remarkable play.
©2017 Plum Roll Productions (P)2018 Plum Roll Productions