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Run For Your Wife

  • Ray Cooney
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 6M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573113833

"Run For Your Wife should run for life!"

Sunday Express

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
This superb example of the British farce had audiences rolling in the aisles in London and New York!

A taxi driver gets away with having two wives in different areas of London because of his irregular working schedule. Complication is piled upon complication as the cabby tries to keep his double life from exploding.

For a side-splitting sequel, read Caught in the Net.

REVIEWS:

"Run for Your Wife should run for life!"

 Sunday Express

"A frolic? It is... a triumph."

 Daily Telegraph

"Virtually continuous laughter."

 The New York Post

"Audiences will enjoy the show tremendously."

 The New York Daily News

"A laugh a minute!"

 WABC-Radio

"I was exhausted from laughing so hard."

 WMCA-Radio

Premiere Production:

Run For Your Wife was first produced at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, on 26th October, 1982.
It was subsequently produced by The Theatre of Comedy Company at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on 29th March, 1983.

  • Casting: 6M, 2F

  • MARY SMITH
    BARBARA SMITH
    JOHN SMITH
    DETECTIVE SERGEANT TROUGHTON
    STANLEY GARDNER
    NEWSPAPER REPORTER
    DETECTIVE SERGEANT PORTERHOUSE
    BOBBY FRANKLYN
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    This superb example of the British farce had audiences rolling in the aisles in London and New York! A taxi driver gets away with having two wives in different areas of London because of his irregular working schedule. Complication is piled upon complication as the cabby tries to keep his double life from exploding. For a side-splitting sequel, read Caught in the Net.

    $24.95