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Two Thousand Women (DVD)
Patricia Roc, Flora Robson, Renee Houston, Phyllis Calvert, Reginald Purdell, …
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Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc and Renee Houston star
in this World War Two drama set in a women's internment camp in
Nazi-occupied France. Forced to live together in trying
circumstances, a group of British women from varied backgrounds
must put their social differences aside and band together to
protect not just themselves, but three survivors from a British
bomber plane who make an emergency landing in the camp's grounds.
Genre: Farce Characters: 2 males, 4 females plus 1 optional male
Scenery: 1 set This fast paced, fun filled farce by two masters of
the genre enjoyed a successful run at London's Strand Theatre,
starring David Jason as the hapless Fisher. Peter Fisher is the
manager of the West Berlin office of a British car company, where
selling British cars is like selling pork chops at a bar mitzvah He
is also an undercover agent for British Security of Industry, a
role for which he is singularly ill-equipped. With his wife Monica
due to fly home to England for a short break, Fisher is planning to
spend his birthday quietly, but when Monica's plane is delayed she
returns home, followed in rapid succession by Heidi, Fisher's
mistress, Mitzi, a voluptuous singing telegram girl, Cadwallader
from British Security of Industry, who is awaiting the arrival from
the East of Hans, a top industrial spy, and Tregunter Jones, a
rather butch Rep. from Midland Motors. Amid a great many comings
and goings and considerable confusion, the elusive Hans does
finally make a brief, if somewhat unusual, appearance, dangling
from a helicopter
This comic tale of mistaken identity unfolds with real wit and
style. A Portuguese time share villa has been double booked without
the company representative, myopic tippler Commander "Chitto"
Chittenden, knowing. When Mary and Henry arrive shortly after Eve
and Leslie, Chitto manages to remain unaware that there is more
than one couple on the scene. The confusion is compounded when each
couple mistakes the other for the servants.4 women, 4 men
Michael Pertwee is one of today's foremost comedy writers. He is
responsible for a number of Brian Rix successes, including She's
Done It Again! and Don't Just Lie There Say Something! He wrote his
first West End play, aged twenty-one, with Guy Beauchamp entitled
Death on The Table which was presented at the Strand and in New
York in 1938. Among other plays he wrote The Paragon with his
father, Roland Pertwee. He wrote the book of the musical The Four
Musketeers with Harry Secombe at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The
French play, Birds o f Paradise, was adapted by him and enjoyed a
successful run at the Garrick Theatre with Moira Lister in 1974.-2
women, 3 men
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