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Happy Birthday Me

  • Simon Williams
  • Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573120930

"It's my birthday. All I wanted was a bottle of Claret and a couple of winners at Sandown."

  • Short Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
"It's my birthday. All I wanted was a bottle of Claret and a couple of winners at Sandown."

Instead, retired actress Margot Buchanan receives three separate visitors: her ex-husband, Leo, an ageing film star fresh from a punch-up with a reporter, Leo's current wife Judy, and his latest mistress Sadie, an aspiring Juliet seeking Margot's acting advice. Just as the inevitable fireworks kick off, Leo suffers a fatal heart attack. Then the kissogram shows up...

Happy Birthday Me
is a touching and very funny comedy in one-act based on the author's earlier full-length play, Laying the Ghost.

  • Casting: 2M, 5F

  • MARGOT BUCHANAN - an actress, 70
    MISS FREDA DEACON - an elderly actress
    MRS KIDD - the home administrator
    SIR LEO BUCHANAN - an actor, 71.
    LADY BUCHANAN - Leo's wife, late 40s.
    SADIE CROFT - a young actress
    SUPERMAN - an unwelcome visitor
    GRAHAM LATIMER - voice off
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    "It's my birthday. All I wanted was a bottle of Claret and a couple of winners at Sandown."

    Instead, retired actress Margot Buchanan receives three separate visitors: her ex-husband, Leo, an ageing film star fresh from a punch-up with a reporter, Leo's current wife Judy, and his latest mistress Sadie, an aspiring Juliet seeking Margot's acting advice. Just as the inevitable fireworks kick off, Leo suffers a fatal heart attack. Then the kissogram shows up...

    Happy Birthday Me
    is a touching and very funny comedy in one-act based on the author's earlier full-length play, Laying the Ghost.

    $24.95