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Weekend, The

  • Michael Palin
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 4M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780413689405

Cantankerous, misanthropic, miserable, world-weary... Think of an adjective synonymous with 'crabby' and it will apply to Stephen Febble. All he wants is to be left alone, but, to his horror, his long-suffering wife Virginia fills the house with guests.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre
Faced with a family gathering, world-weary Stephen Febble does his best to be difficult. When his daughter, her dreary husband Alan, their precocious child and -- not least -- the dog come to stay for the weekend it's enough to make him reach for the whisky, and for the sarcasm.

The climax arrives on Saturday night when his patient wife Virginia has laid on a dinner party and the chiropodist comes too.

Premiere Production: The Weekend had its first West End production at the Strand Theatre, London in 1994.
  • Casting: 4M, 5F

M4 (30s, 60s)
F5 (teenage, 30s, 50s, 60s)
M1 voice only
A Dog

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Faced with a family gathering, world-weary Stephen Febble does his best to be difficult. When his daughter, her dreary husband Alan, their precocious child and -- not least -- the dog come to stay for the weekend it's enough to make him reach for the whisky, and for the sarcasm.

The climax arrives on Saturday night when his patient wife Virginia has laid on a dinner party and the chiropodist comes too.

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