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Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 6m

Winner! 1991 Olivier Award Winner, Best Comedy

"Gleefully funny." - Guardian

"Made me laugh more than any play I have seen in the West End this year." - Evening Standard

"A classic." - Today

"A triumph…

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 6m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1991 Olivier Award Winner, Best Comedy

Details

Summary
When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful sequel to Two into One.
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"Gleefully funny. " - Guardian

"Made me laugh more than any play I have seen in the West End this year." - Evening Standard

"A classic." - Today

"A triumph." - Financial Times

"Brilliant." - Observer

"A textbook model of pyramiding lunacy." - Variety

"Wildly funny." - Telegraph

"An inspired machine designed to cater for one of civilized society's greatest joys, which is to see someone else in the soup." - London Sunday Times

Music

Song Samples

Ray Cooney's interview for Dave's Gone By

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $130 per performance

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Authors

Ray Cooney

Ray Cooney began his theatrical career as a boy actor in Song of Norway at the Palace Theatre in 1946. He played in Dry Rot and Simple Spymen and then began a writing career which, to date, has sent 18 plays to the West End, including One for the Pot, Not Now Darling, Move Ov ...

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