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Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 8m

Tom Stoppard

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land
by Tom Stoppard

Dirty Linen concerns the investigation of a Select Committee into the moral standards of the House of Commons - a somewhat unconventional investigation, rendered not less so by the presence of an ultra-sexy secretary whose clothes have a trick of whisking off in the hands of various members.

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land

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    Cast Size
    2w, 8m
  • Audience
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Summary
Dirty Linen concerns the investigation of a Select Committee into the moral standards of the House of Commons - a somewhat unconventional investigation, rendered not less so by the presence of an ultra-sexy secretary whose clothes have a trick of whisking off in the hands of various members. New-Found-Land is a duologue between two Home Office officials, with a tour-de-force speech on America by one of them.
Keywords
M8 (young, middle-age) F2 (young, middle-age)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A committee room in the House of Commons
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, The Hard Problem, opened at the National Theatre in 2015. He wrote his first play, Enter a Free Man, whilst working as a journalist in Bristol. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, ...

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