One quiz at a time

[LGTrotter]

From what or whom have I taken the following?

This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

It has a sort of 'Abigail's Party' feel to it.

[LGTrotter]

What about something by JB Priestly?

Edit; that's Priestley, thanks Andre!

[djewesbury]

What about something by JB Priestly?

Not he. More recent, though not very so. It is a London story.

[djewesbury]

From what or whom have I taken the following?

This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

It has a sort of 'Abigail's Party' feel to it.

And nobody in Abigail's Party drinks port. Port and lemon maybe. But not so you'd remark on the indifferent quality of the port itself.

[AW77]

Caryl Churchill? Or is this too highbrow?

[djewesbury]

Caryl Churchill? Or is this too highbrow?

Not Caryl Churchill. Interesting guess. Too recent.

[LGTrotter]

Tom bloody Stoppard. Cos it always is.

[djewesbury]

Tom bloody Stoppard. Cos it always is.

Also too recent. And mind your language.

[djewesbury]

The film version was made in a year in which VP was, on the whole, not made.

EDIT: what I mean is, I'm not aware of any, but I'm not so rash as to claim there was 'none'.

[LGTrotter]

The film version was made in a year in which VP was, on the whole, not made.

EDIT: what I mean is, I'm not aware of any, but I'm not so rash as to claim there was 'none'.

1993 then.

[djewesbury]

I just said that Tom Stoppard was too recent. And before that I said that Caryl Churchill was too recent. And it's not your turn.

[LGTrotter]

But they might have made the film version later.

[djewesbury]

But they might have made the film version later.

They didn't make it very much later. It's contemporaneous with the play. And much better known than it. And it's still not your turn.

[djewesbury]

It's not Owen's turn. Still.

[LGTrotter]

The only playwrights I can think of between Priestley and Stoppard are Americans, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. I suppose Pinter would have been around, but I can't imagine he was into port. And as for the year it is all getting very obscure. 1954?

And these are just considerations around the question rather than guesses, so feel free to respond with something other than "It's not your turn".

[djewesbury]

I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

[AW77]

Leo Butler?

[djewesbury]

I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

[LGTrotter]

I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

From what or whom have I taken the following?

This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

Your question refers to what or whom, I was thinking about the whom.

[djewesbury]

I didn't say the playwright was well known; not did I ask you to guess their name. I asked what that line came from.

From what or whom have I taken the following?

This calls for a celebration. I was going to palm you off with an indifferent port but let's see what we have here.

Your question refers to what or whom, I was thinking about the whom.

Yes; I was deliberately imprecise. Then I gave further clues. Now go away and let someone else guess, you naughty boy.

[djewesbury]

Leo Butler?

In what way is he less recent than Caryl Churchill or Tom Stoppard? He's younger than me.

[AW77]

I just wanted to give Owen an opportunity to guess so I just threw in a name.

[djewesbury]

I just wanted to give Owen an opportunity to guess so I just threw in a name.

That's very selfless. It gives us all a bit of a break from his constant nipping around the ankles…

[djewesbury]

It's Owen's turn.

[LGTrotter]

It's Owen's turn.

OK, how about a response to the above nippings.

And while we're at it, Agatha Christie's the Mousetrap?