Collier's Tuesday Tea, A
- Short Play, Farce, Comedy, Mystery/Thriller, 1910s / WWI
- 9M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780573000089
Contained in the volume Four Plays for Coarse Actors in which the plays are presented as parodies of four dramatic styles.
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Description
- Short Play
- Farce, Comedy, Mystery/Thriller
- 30 minutes
- Time Period: 1910s / WWI
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: No Special Cautions
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Contained in the volumes Four Plays for Coarse Actors in which the plays are presented as parodies of four dramatic styles, in the performance of which everything which can go wrong in a production does so.
A Collier's Tuesday Tea combines the kitchen sink with the coal-mine, and with an irreverent glance at D.H. Lawrence.
A Collier's Tuesday Tea combines the kitchen sink with the coal-mine, and with an irreverent glance at D.H. Lawrence.
Premiere Production:
First produced at the Questors Theatre, Ealing, London in 1975.
Characters
- Casting: 9M, 3F
DANIEL OBADIAH HEPPLETHWAITE - her spouse
VICTORIA HEPPLETHWAITE - their daughter
ALBERT HEPPLETHWAITE - their son
JOE CLEGGHORN - grandfather
MARGERY HACKFORTH - a neighbor
LIONEL HEADBRACKET - Victoria's sweetheart
P.C. CLEMENT BOOTHROYD - a policeman
JED THROTTLE - a relation of the Hepplethwaite family
