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Out of Order

  • Ray Cooney
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 6M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573018589

"Gleefully funny."

The Guardian

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 1991 Oliver Award for Best Comedy
When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful sequel to Two Into One.

REVIEWS:

"Gleefully funny."

 The Guardian

"Made me laugh more than any play I have seen in the West End this year."

 Evening Standard

"A classic."

 Today

Premiere Production:

Out of Order was first produced (under the title Whose Wife Is It Anyway?) at the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, on 8th May, 1990.It was subsequently produced by The Theatre of Comedy Company at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on 28th September, 1990.

  • Casting: 6M, 4F

  • RICHARD WILLEY - a sauve and successful man and a Junior Minister in the Government of the day
    THE MANAGER - a severe man
    THE WAITER - a nimble and wily old servant
    THE MAID - a plump Italian woman in her fifties
    JANE WORTHINGTON - an attractive but ditzy young lady
    A BODY - a nondescript middle-aged man
    GEORGE PIGDEN - an upright pleasant man of nervous disposition
    RONNIE - an angry young man
    PAMELA - an attractive sophisticated woman in her forties
    GLADYS - a bossy but attractive woman in her forties
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    When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful sequel to Two Into One.

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