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Funny Money

  • Ray Cooney
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 6M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573017629

Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier!

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier! 

Henry A. Perkins, a mild mannered C.P.A., accidentally picks up the wrong briefcase... One full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book one way fares to Barcelona, they can go to Bali. In fact, they can buy Bali!

The doorbell rings and they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door thinks Henry was soliciting in the men's room of the local pub actually, he was sitting in the loo counting the cash. The bell rings again. Another detective arrives thinking Henry is dead; a man with bullet holes in his head and Henry's briefcase were found in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations.

Premiere Production: Funny Money was first produced at The Churchill Theatre Bromley -- Kent -- England on June 13, 1994.
  • Casting: 6M, 2F

  • JEAN PERKINS - a pretty but ordinary woman in her late forties.
    HENRY PERKINS - an insignificant man in his early fifties.
    BILL - a middle-aged London taxi driver of spirit.
    DAVENPORT - a sparse middle-aged man with a knowing glint in his eye.
    BETTY JOHNSON - a buxom and cheerful woman in her late forties.
    VIC JOHNSON - a brash man with feet of clay.
    SLATER - a solicitous and kindly soul -- until provoked.
    A PASSER-BY - a large man.
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    Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier! 

    Henry A. Perkins, a mild mannered C.P.A., accidentally picks up the wrong briefcase... One full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book one way fares to Barcelona, they can go to Bali. In fact, they can buy Bali!

    The doorbell rings and they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door thinks Henry was soliciting in the men's room of the local pub actually, he was sitting in the loo counting the cash. The bell rings again. Another detective arrives thinking Henry is dead; a man with bullet holes in his head and Henry's briefcase were found in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations.

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