About the Play:

Mr England is a full-length comedy by Richard Bean. A dark, twisted comedy about a middle manager, nationalism, sex and madness. Richard Bean, the celebrated writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, takes a fresh and exiting look at the age-old concept of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary situations.

Mr England studies a middle manager's fight for professional survival. Stephen England is a middle-class man who works as a drywall sales rep. As his name implies, he believes in middle class values, free enterprise, and male heroism. But he goes off the rails. Why has he got up in the night and mysteriously defecated on the living room carpet? His frustrated wife Judith doesn't know, nor does his compulsively jabbering mother Irene. Only Andy, the misfit teenager who regularly turns up uninvited to borrow his power tools, can save (or destroy) him. Mr. England is a dark and twisted comedy about what it means to be English, what it means to want love, and what it means to fall apart.

Mr England premiered in 2000 in a National Theatre Studio production at the Crucible Theare in Sheffield.

Cast: 2 female, 2 male

What people say:

"As funny, touching and brilliant an account of men at work as any we have seen since David Storey's The Changing Room." — The Spectator

"Cunningly effective." — The Times

About the Playwright:

Richard Bean is an English playwright. He was born in East Hull in 1956. After school, he worked in a bread plant before leaving to study Psychology at Loughborough University. Between 1989 and 1994, he began doing stand-up comedy and went onto become one of the writers on BBC Radio sitcom Control Group Six, which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. He was written 16 plays, mixing new writing with adaptations.