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Cash on Delivery

  • Michael Cooney
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 6M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573017520

Michael Cooney's riotous farce has all the ingredients for rib-tickling hilarity and offers a colourful selection of character roles.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre
Michael Cooney's riotous farce has all the ingredients for rib-tickling hilarity and offers a colourful selection of character roles. 

Eric Swan (aided by his Uncle George and unbeknown to his wife, Linda) has pocketed thousands of pounds through fraudulent DSS claims. When Norman Bassett (the lodger) opens the door to Mr Jenkins, the DSS Inspector, deceptive mayhem follows — as do the undertaker, bereavement counsellor, psychiatrist, Norman's fiance, a corpse, the ominous Ms Cowper and a rather rebellious washing machine!
REVIEWS:

"The piece is so ingeniously plotted, the permutations on old routines so virtuosic that I found myself snorting like a demented whale... an instant classic of the genre."

The Telegraph

"...the audience never stops laughing throughout and that's how you know a farce has force."

Chicago Theater Beat

Premiere Production: Cash on Delivery premiered at the Whitehall Theatre in London in September 1996 under the direction of Ray Cooney.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 4F

ERIC SWANN
LINDA SWANN
NORMAN MCDONALD
MR. JENKINS
UNCLE GEORGE
SALLY CHESSINGTON
DOCTOR CHAPMAN
MR. FORBRIGHT
MS. COWPER
MISS DIXON

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Michael Cooney's riotous farce has all the ingredien's for rib-tickling hilarity and offers a colourful selection of character roles. Eric Swan (aided by his Uncle George and unbeknown to his wife, Linda) has pocketed thousan's of poun's through fraudulent DSS claims. When Norman Bassett (the lodger) opens the door to Mr Jenkins, the DSS Inspector, deceptive mayhem follows — as do the undertaker, bereavement counsellor, psychiatrist, Norman's fiancí©e, a corpse, the ominous Ms Cowper and a rather rebellious washing machine!

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