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Jay Spencer wants to leave his past behind him and start a new life. When he moves into his new flat his only wish is solitude, but the girl next door plagues him with her suicide threats, his current wife causes problems, his ex-wife insists on leading him to Jesus, and his secretary declares her undying passion. Jay's women pursue, attack, seduce and harass him and he only wants to be left alone or does he? Finally when he achieves his aim and has only himself for company, the thought is too much and he telephones the last female left his mother! This very funny and witty play has fast and well-timed comic action. 4 women, 1 man
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
Leslie Phillips and James Booth star as rival vets in this British comedy drama. After ten long years of training, Jimmy Fox-Upton (Phillips) finally qualifies as a vet and opens his own practice. Settled in London, Jimmy opposes the money-grabbing ways of his fellow graduate Bob Skeffington (Booth) and sets about exposing his lucrative equine export scam.
Margaret Rutherford and Robert Morley star in this British comedy. The Drossmouth repertory company are having enough trouble preparing for their production of the poorly-written melodrama 'Tarnished Gold' when the play's indomitable author Catherine Beckwith (Rutherford) arrives. She soon locks horns with the play's producer Harry Blacker (Morley), a confrontation which quickly escalates into out-and-out war.
Farcical British comedy based on the play by Michael Pertwee. Leslie Phillips stars as Sir William Mainwaring-Brown, a Government minister with a roving eye who has just introduced a bill to combat libertarian behaviour in Britain. Sir William, however, is having affairs with both his secretary Miss Parkyn (Joanna Lumley) and Wendy (Anita Graham), the wife of an eminent reporter. A group of hippies who oppose the bill seek to derail his campaign by discrediting co-founders Sir William and his best friend Barry Ovis (Brian Rix).
Box set featuring all three of Eric and Ernie's big screen adventures. In 'The Intelligence Men' (1965) Eric helps secret agent Ernie to protect Russian ballerina Madame Petrovna when her life is placed in danger. In 'That Riviera Touch' (1966) the pair travel to the Riviera, where they become mixed up with jewel thieves while attempting to romance the beautiful Claudette. In 'The Magnificent Two' (1967) the boys visit Latin America, where Eric is persuaded by a latin beauty to impersonate a dead rebel leader.
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