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Saving It For Albie

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 2m

Richard Harris

Saving It For Albie
by Richard Harris

Grace Andrews first met brothers Albie and Ray Rodway in her early 20s while holidaying alone in Corfu. More than two decades on, Grace and Albie unexpectedly run into each other again at a hotel in London. Remembering old feelings from the holiday, …

Saving It For Albie

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 2m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy

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Summary
Grace Andrews first met brothers Albie and Ray Rodway in her early 20s while holidaying alone in Corfu. More than two decades on, Grace and Albie unexpectedly run into each other again at a hotel in London. Remembering old feelings from the holiday, they become a couple and within six months get married. The play opens on the afternoon of their wedding when Albie has over-indulged on champagne and Ray, his best man, is helping him up the stairs to his Manchester flat. Grace's tactless and interfering mother, Rose, observes proceedings with an ever-critical eye. Between Albie's drunkenness and Rose's barbed commentary, not to mention the frequent phone calls from mysterious women, Grace finds an ally in reliable, good-natured family man Ray. When he produces an old photograph from the Corfu holiday, however, it soon transpires that the man Grace first fell in love with is not the man she thought he was.
Rose, 60s.
Grace, her daughter, mid-40s.
Ray, late 40s.
Albie, his brother, younger by two years.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A living room in a flat

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Richard Harris

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