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A Stroke of Luck

  • By Will Butters
  • Short Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 4M, 4F
  • ISBN: PSASOL

You wouldn't think that there was anything at all funny about someone having a stroke and, yet, the playwright, Will Butters, has managed to turn his own experience of having a stroke, at a relatively early age, into a masterpiece of black comedy.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 40 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: One set, which adapts to two locations. Full instructions and plan are given in the script.

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Senior Theatre
You wouldn't think that there was anything at all funny about someone having a stroke and, yet, the playwright, Will Butters, has managed to turn his own experience of having a stroke, at a relatively early age, into a masterpiece of black comedy. His experiences of the stroke itself and the rehabilitation in hospital afterwards - aided and abetted by an unholy trinity of patients, Sandra, Hilda and Albert - borders on farce.

A play that will move you to laughter and tears.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 4F
  • Casting Notes: 4 men (with doubling)

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You wouldn't think that there was anything at all funny about someone having a stroke and, yet, the playwright, Will Butters, has managed to turn his own experience of having a stroke, at a relatively early age, into a masterpiece of black comedy. His experiences of the stroke itself and the rehabilitation in hospital afterwards - aided and abetted by an unholy trinity of patients, Sandra, Hilda and Albert - borders on farce. A play that will move you to laughter and tears.

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