loading
This is a NEW Samuel French website. Click the red tag at the right of the screen to offer your feedback!
Live chat 1-866-598-8449

Customer Service available Mon - Fri 9am to 9pm EST Sat & Sun 1pm to 8pm EST

Picture of Fool's Paradise

Fool's Paradise

Peter Coke

Customer Rating: starstarstarstarstar (Rate this!)

Full Length Play, Comedy

2m, 6f

ISBN: 9780573011375

"Aboundingly funny." - The London Sunday Times

Jane and Catherine have an antique cluttered house, unpaid bills, and a memory of marriage to the same man, now deceased. His will states they can live in the house if they don't sell its contents. They discover some jewels and a wily antique dealer …

More Information Below:

Description | Characters | Author | Reviews
$10.95
: Acting Edition

Minimum Fee: $75 per performance


Description

Full Length Play

Comedy

Farce

FEATURES / CONTAINS

Interior Set

TARGET AUDIENCE

Appropriate for all audiences

Jane and Catherine have an antique cluttered house, unpaid bills, and a memory of marriage to the same man, now deceased. His will states they can live in the house if they don't sell its contents. They discover some jewels and a wily antique dealer gets them to accept a down payment and from then on everything they do to rectify matters gets them in deeper. The dealer's check is sent to one of their many creditors, The Revenue Service, and they accept money from a lady to pay back the dealer. When the dealer returns he tricks them again with another check as a "deposit" on the furniture. Then another woman claims the jewels. With mounting illegalities, Jane impersonates a third wife of the deceased. The dealer is about to call the police when the other two women reenter, bidding so furiously for the jewels that the price they fetch gets Jane and Catherine well out of debt.
"Aboundingly funny." - The London Sunday Times
Characters

CASTING

2m, 6f

Author

Other Peter Coke titles available from Samuel French:

Now Playing
loading
Reviews

You May Also Like

See all