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Too Many Cooks
Too Many Cooks
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Author: Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 122 Pub. Date: 2012 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573700508 ISBN-13: 9780573700507 Cast Size: 4 female, 3 male
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About the Play:
Too Many Cooks is a full-length comedy by Marcia Kash
and Douglas E. Hughes. The year is 1932 at the height of prohibition. Irving and his
daughter, Honey, are preparing for the opening of their gourmet
restaurant in Niagara Falls, Canada. Their plan to feature a famous
French chef turns into a recipe for disaster when he fails to appear.
Things go from bad to worse when they persuade an unemployed drifter
to don the chef's hat and apron at the last moment. Mix in lots of
doors, mistaken identities, an overzealous Mountie, an immigration
investigator, and it's becomes clear that this is a recipe for
trouble.
Too Many Cooks is set in 1932 in Niagara Falls, Canada,
where the rum-running business is at its peak. In the aftermath of
the Crash, Irving Bubbalowe and his daughter, Honey, have risked all
of their savings to open a new gourmet restaurant. When their star –
the renowned singing chef François LaPlouffe – fails to appear,
tonight's grand opening is suddenly placed in jeopardy. However, when
unemployed chef Frank Plunkett wanders in looking for work, Honey
persuades him to masquerade as the missing LaPlouffe. The beleaguered
Bubbalowe, meanwhile, also has to contend with Chicago gangster
Alfonse Feghetti and his sidekick who have come looking for an
illegal shipment of booze that, unbeknownst to Bubbalowe, has found
its way into his basement. In addition, Bubbalowe has to keep at bay
the hot-blooded Immigration officer Veronica Snook (who's on the
trail of the vanished chef), as well as a suspicious teetotalling
Mountie who is ready to arrest Bubbalowe on suspicion of both murder
and bootlegging. Madness ensues as Bubbalowe and the others create a
hornet's nest of fabricated stories and identities in a valiant
attempt to save the restaurant – and themselves – from both the
gangsters and the law.
Too Many Cooks premiered in 2003 at the Lighthouse Festival
in Port Dover, Ontario. It has since been produced dozens of times in
Canada, the United States and Europe.
Cast: 4 female, 3 male
What people say:
"Too Many Cooks
was the most entertaining play I have ever seen! I've never laughed
so hard at a play... brilliantly written and performed." —
CHCD Radio, Ontario
"Too Many Cooks
is a hilarious comedy... a huge success." — Simcoe
Reformer
"Those who enjoy comedic farce
will giggle non-stop." — Port Dover Maple Leaf
"Stand clear of the swinging
doors, folks, there's a heaping helping of farce coming through...
the Canadian comedy Too Many Cooks is loaded
with funny bits delivered by chefs, gangsters, rum-runners and yes, a
Mountie." — TheaterJones.com
About the Playwright:
Marcia Kash is a Canadian theatre director, playwright and
actor. Her stage plays have been seen across Canada, the US and
Europe.
Douglas E. Hughes is a Canadian playwright and actor. He
has been a professional actor for 25 years, and has appeared in
theatres across Canada. For the past ten seasons, he has been a
member of the acting company at Shaw Festival. He began writing in
1991 and he teamed up with Marcia Kash to pen A Party to
Murder. He makes his home in Toronto, when not working at Shaw.
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Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes
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