It Runs in the Family

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Cast Size

4w, 7m
Duration

More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Subgenre

Farce
Target Audience

Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary

Set in a hospital, It Runs in the Family contains the usual assortment of farcical nuts running in and out of doors mistaking everybody for someone else, as Dr. Mortimore tries to fend off a paternity suit, an ex wife, a punkish son and various other lunatics so that he may, at last, deliver the Ponsonby Lecture in an international conference.

History

It Runs in the Family premiered at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford in November 1987 under the direction of Ray Cooney.

Performing Groups

DR. DAVID MORTIMORE
DR. MIKE CONNOLLY
ROSEMARY MORTIMORE
DR. HUBERT BONNEY
MATRON
SIR WILLOUGHBY DRAKE
JANE TATE
SISTER
LESLIE
POLICE SERGEANT
BILL
MOTHER

Time Period Present Day
Setting The Doctors' Common Room of St. Andrew's Hospital, London. Present day.
Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Cautions
- Mild Adult Themes

Media

"Tickles the funny bones quite shamelessly." - Sunday Express, London

"As in every good farce from Ben Travers to Joe Orton, the location becomes a madhouse filled with an epidemic of unbridled lunacy." - London Financial Times

Music

Song Samples

Ray Cooney's interview for Dave's Gone By

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Authors

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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It Runs in the Family