Almost an Evening is a series of three one act plays:
Waiting: Nelson is waiting in a waiting room without a door. How did he get there? How can he leave? How long before he can leave? Surely somebody will know, right?
Four Benches: One, a British secret agent, is literally and figuratively in the dark. He is not alone though. With him is at least a very naked Texan. But who else is there? And did anyone hear that shot as well?
On Discworld live three witches, Granny, Nanny and Margrat. One day a baby is thrown into their laps and it happens that it is the son of the dead king. The king, murdered by the Duke, who wants to be ruler. Well, the Duchess want to be ruler actually: behind every good man, stands a better woman. Anyway, the witches decide to get the baby adopted by an actor and his wife, so he stays out of trouble until he is ready to rule as the new king. When everything goes awry with the Duke (the idea to burn down the whole forest amongst other things), the witches decide to speed up time about fifteen years. But is that the right decision?
It’s Catherine’s birthday. She is turning twenty-five, but already spent most of her adult life caring for her manic-depressive father Robert, having to disgard her own study and student life. Now that Robert is dead she has difficulty to get her own life back on track. She doesn’t leave the house with all her father’s stuff and 103 notebooks he left behind. When her estranged sister Claire arrives and Hal, a student interested in her father’s work, shows up, she has to get out of her shell she built after Robert’s death and has to confront her own desires. She knows she inherited her father’s genius for mathematics, but has he also enherited his ‘madness’?
A group of troubled school kids with special needs, are going on a trip with their teacher Mrs Kay. Mrs Kay is very sympethatic with the teens and her trips always get out of hand, so this time Mr Briggs (another teacher) is going with them to control the situation. The kids don’t like him and he doesn’t like the kids, but as the trip develops both parties learn valuable lessons.
