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Happiest Days of Your Life, The

  • John Dighton
  • Full Length Play, Comedy
  • 7M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780573011696

Set after World War II, this delightful farce is about what happens when a boys' school receives the news that they are to billet another school which is all female.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
Events are complicated by the arrival of the parents.

Each headmaster/headmistress tries to conceal the fact that his/her school is not coed. Eventually, the parents learn the truth and are about to remove their children when news arrives that a third school is to be amalgamated into theirs. They all join together to keep out these intruders.

This delightful, whimsical show about the breaking down of barriers between the sexes is ideal for all groups.

Premiere Production: The Happiest Days of Your Life was produced at the Apollo Theatre, London, on the 29th March, 1948.
  • Casting: 7M, 6F

  • DICK TASSELL - Assistant Master at Hilary Hall
    RAINBOW - School Porter and Groundsman
    RUPERT BILLINGS - Senior Assistant Master at Hilary Hall
    GODFREY POND - Headmaster of Hilary Hall
    MISS EVELYN WHITCHURCH - Principal of St. Swithins School for Girls
    MISS GOSSAGE - Senior Assistant Mistress at St. Swithins
    HOPCROFT - Pupil at Hilary Hall
    BARBARA CAHOUN - Pupil at St. Swithins
    JOYCE HARPER - Assistant Mistress at St. Swithins
    THE REVEREND EDWARD PECK
    MRS. PECK - his wife
    EDGAR SOWTER
    MRS. SOWTHER - his wife
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    Events are complicated by the arrival of the parents.

    Each headmaster/headmistress tries to conceal the fact that his/her school is no coed. Eventually, the parents learn the truth and are about to remove their children when news arrives that a third school is to be amalgamated into theirs. They all join together to keep out these intruders.

    This delightful, whimsical show about the breaking down of barriers between the sexes is ideal for all groups.

    $24.95