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Panic Stations

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  5w, 4m

Derek Benfield

Panic Stations
by Derek Benfield

Chester Dreadnought has bought a lovely country cottage, dreaming of idyllic peace, but is he able to enjoy it? Not with Abel Bounty, the local unhandyman, always around, and not with Carol, an attractive girl who seems to have mysteriously moved in.…

Panic Stations

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 4m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce

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Summary
Chester Dreadnought has bought a lovely country cottage, dreaming of idyllic peace, but is he able to enjoy it? Not with Abel Bounty, the local unhandyman, always around, and not with Carol, an attractive girl who seems to have mysteriously moved in. Those who have met Chester already in Wild Goose Chase and Post Horn Gallop know his aptitude for social and anti-social blunders, and Lord and Lady Elrood and scatty Miss Partridge also make a reappearance.
M4 (35, middle-age, 60s) F5 (20s-60)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A cottage interior

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Derek Benfield

Derek Benfield
Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School. As a playwright, Benfield wrote more than 30 stage plays. Benfield had made his acting debut, in Yorks ...
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