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It's All Relative

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Norman R. Shapiro, Eugene Labiche, Marc Michel

Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel
Translated by Norman R. Shapiro

Seven fiancees have been frightened off by the hero's unappealing step daughter, a lady twice his age. He is desperate to conceal her from his newest intended, but plans go awry and even a mammoth dowry fails to convince a tippling swashbuckler to take her off his hands. When he inveigles the bride …

It's All Relative

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce

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Summary
Seven fiancees have been frightened off by the hero's unappealing step daughter, a lady twice his age. He is desperate to conceal her from his newest intended, but plans go awry and even a mammoth dowry fails to convince a tippling swashbuckler to take her off his hands. When he inveigles the bride to be's widowed father into a marriage of convenience, he creates a maze in which his wife will be his granddaughter and he will become his own grandfather in law.
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Norman R. Shapiro

Eugene Labiche

Eugène-Marin Labiche (1815-1888) was a comic playwright who wrote many of the most popular and amusing light comedies of the 19th-century French stage. Written together with other authors, these works were presented mostly at the Palais-Royal, the home of light comedy. The be ...
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Marc Michel

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