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No Knowing

A supremely funny comedy written in 2016, we see Elspeth and Arthur celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. We go back to the previous Christmas and wince as their grown-up children reveal murky and (often) hilarious truths about both parents.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Elspeth and Arthur are celebrating forty years of quiet, safe, unspectacular, ordinary marriage. Or so most of the guests attending their anniversary party are led to believe.

But knowing her and knowing him as they do, their son and daughter know differently.

Premiere Production: No Knowing was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in the McCarthy auditorium on 6 December, 2016.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

  • ARTHUR THROKE - a retired council official, sixties
    ELSPETH THROKE - his wife, late fifties
    ALISON THROKE-DAVIES - their daughter, early thirties
    NIGEL THROKE - their son, late thirties
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    Elspeth and Arthur are celebrating forty years of quiet, safe, unspectacular, ordinary marriage. Or so most of the guests attending their anniversary party are led to believe.

    But knowing her and knowing him as they do, their son and daughter know differently.

    $24.95