Good Samaritan/Death of a Hawker by Paul Birtill

Leonie Scott-Matthews presents The Good Samaritan / The Death of a Hawker , a black comedy double bill by Paul Birtill, directed by Conrad Blakemore, at the Pentameters Theatre, a fringe venue in Hampstead, north London, from 12 Feb to 2 Mar 2013.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN: Samaritan Mike is bombarded by calls from the obsessive Arthur Darnley. What can Mike do to stop Arthur’s attentions?

THE DEATH OF A HAWKER: Jane is married to the brutish Maurice and lives a humdrum life of suburban servitude until her ex-boyfriend Peter unexpectedly turns up at her door hawking encyclopedias.

- by Darren Dalglish