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Run for Your Wife
Run for Your Wife
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Author: Ray Cooney Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 146 Pub. Date: 1990 ISBN-10: 0573691894 ISBN-13: 9780573691898 Cast Size: 2 women, 6 men
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About
the Play:
Run for Your Wife was one of Royal National
Theatre of Britain's top 100 plays of the 20th century.
Run for Your Wife is a full-length comedy by Ray Cooney.
In this superb example of the British farce, a seemingly ordinary
taxi driver has two wives who live minutes from each other in the
London suburbs, and he must try desperately to keep them from
learning about each other. A fast
paced, slapstick, laugh-a-minute romp that leaves your audience in stitches and
begging for more.
Run for Your Wife is an
outrageous comedy about a taxi driver who gets away with having two
wives in different areas of town because of his irregular work
schedule. John Smith is a man with a schedule and a secret. He
seems like any other normal London cab driver. He owns his own car,
sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very
ordinary life, except for the fact that he is secretly juggling two
wives, Mary and Barbara, with the help of his determination and a
very, very
precise schedule. Run for Your Wife follows
John as he is brought home the morning after having been hit on the
head while breaking up a mugging. In his dazed confusion, he has told
the police and the hospital two different "home" addresses
and has been brought home to the wrong wife at the wrong time.
Complication is piled upon complication as he must employ the help of
his unemployed and hapless neighbour, Stanley Gardner, in a madcap
race against two detectives and his own lies to keep each of his
suspicious wives from running into each other and to keep all of his
stories together. A classic farce
in the vein of Michael Frayn's
Noises Off or
Shakespeare's Comedy of
Errors, Run
For Your Wife has been bringing laughter to audiences for many
years.
Run for Your Wife premiered in 1983 at the
Criterion Theatre in London, ran for over eight years at five addresses
in the West End, and is its longest-running comedy. Ray Cooney,
the author, is also an actor, and he played the taxi driver when Run
for Your Wife had its premiere on Broadway.
Cast: 2 women, 6 men
What people say:
"Run for Your Wife
should run for life." — Sunday Express
"A frolic? It is...a triumph."
— Daily Telegraph
"Virtually continuous
laughter." — The New York Post
"Audiences will enjoy the show
tremendously." — The New York Daily News
"A laugh a minute." —
WABC-Radio
"I was exhausted from laughing
so hard." — WMCA-Radio
About the Playwright:
Ray Cooney, OBE is an English playwright and actor. He
began his theatrical career as a child actor in in 1946, appeared in
many plays, and then began a writing career which, to date, has sent
eighteen plays to the West End. In 1983 he formed the Theatre of
Comedy Company (bringing together the founder members consisting of
thirty West End stars) and became its first Artistic Director. During
his time with the Theatre of Comedy Company and throughout his
career, he has continued to act, direct, and produce while he writes.
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