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Two Into One

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  5w, 5m

Two Into One
by Ray Cooney

"It is a long time since I heard a theatre laughing with such uninhibited delight...One can only marvel at the surrealist idiocy." - Daily Telegraph

"Irrepressively inventive...hilarious!" - Sunday Telegraph

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    5w, 5m

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Summary
Mr. Cooney is truly the leading contemporary practitioner of a great theatrical tradition the sex farce. Two Into One is about nothing more than the hilarious attempts of a Member of Parliament to arrange a dalliance with a secretary for the P.M. in an out of the way little hotel. Unfortunately, he engages one of his aides to arrange the whole thing. The aide is something of a charming bumbler and he gets everything all mixed up. Also on hand are the pompously disapproving hotel manager, a venal ethnic waiter and a female Labour politician who crusades against pornography on the one hand, while on the other she is trying to lure the bumbling civil servant into bed!
Cast Attributes
M5 (Oriental, 20s-40s, 60s) F5 (young, 20s, 40s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting Multiple settings

Music

Song Samples

Ray Cooney's interview for Dave's Gone By

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Ray Cooney

Ray Cooney began his theatrical career as a boy actor in Song of Norway at the Palace Theatre in 1946. He played in Dry Rot and Simple Spymen and then began a writing career which, to date, has sent 18 plays to the West End, including One for the Pot, Not Now Darling, Move Ov ...

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