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Situation Comedy

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Brian Cooke, Johnnie Mortimer

This hilariously bawdy farce, from two top writers of British TV sitcoms, concerns two male sitcom writers, each of whom finds himself intimately partnered with the other gentleman's wife.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Mortimer and Cooke, top writers of British television sitcoms, have turned their delightful sense of humor loose on the stage. This uproarious, slightly naughty comedy is about two authors of sitcoms who are stuck for a new idea. By a neatly contrived accident, each man finds himself getting drunk with the other man's wife. Macho man Charles Summerskill winds up with a beautiful but hopelessly inept partner, who is so artless in the kitchen that she burns salad; whereas wimpy Arthur Grey finds himself with a prim and proper expert chef. Charles ends up with indigestion while Arthur eats well but is left frustrated. Eventually, work forces Charles and Arthur together again, and they decide to create a new show based on the recent upheaval in their private lives.
History
Situation Comedy premiered at the Churchill Theatre in Kent on June 13, 1989. Directed by Leon Rubin, the production featured Trevor Bannister, Brian Murphy, Jane Freeman, Aimi MacDonald, Pamelo Cundell and Robert Morris.

CHARLES SUMMERSKILL
DORIS SUMMERSKILL
ARTHUR GREY
BERYL GREY
MAURICE
MISS TROTTER

  • Setting A West London suburb, such as Barnes. The recent past.
  • Features Period Costumes

Media

“Will amuse and delight all lovers of sitcom!” – Croydon Advertiser
“You can tell the comedy's going down well when the actors themselves are laughing at it and as a result the audience is laughing even more.” – Spalding Guardian

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Author

Brian Cooke

Johnnie Mortimer

Originally a cartoonist, Johnnie Mortimer teamed up with fellow cartoonist Brian Cooke and started to write for radio, notably Men From the Ministry, Round the Horne and Stop Messing About. Soon thereafter they started writing for television, devising and writing series, incl ...

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