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How To Make Your Theatre Pay

Short Play, Comedy  /  1w, 2m

David Henry Wilson

How To Make Your Theatre Pay
by David Henry Wilson

Rouse, a Council official, is visiting the theatre run by Mike Pemberton-Hawkesley, his mission to save the Council money. His brainwave is to turn the theatre into a storage facility for files; Mike is outraged. Mavis Dinwiddy intervenes and the hil…

How To Make Your Theatre Pay

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Rouse, a Council official, is visiting the theatre run by Mike Pemberton-Hawkesley, his mission to save the Council money. His brainwave is to turn the theatre into a storage facility for files; Mike is outraged. Mavis Dinwiddy intervenes and the hilarious absurdity of the situation, compounded by Rouse's very idiosyncratic verbal style, is maintained right up to end of this surprising and enigmatic play.
M2 (middle age) F1 (young).
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A theatre

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David Henry Wilson

David Henry Wilson
David Henry Wilson was born in London, and educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After graduating, he lived and worked in France for two years, and Ghana for four years, before becoming a lector at Cologne University. In 1967 he was appointed Akademisch ...
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