Stephen Smith
Stranded in an airport lounge during the inevitable delay of a holiday flight to Spain, Rosemary ("I'm a one-parent family, you see") and her carbon-copy, not-very-bright daughter, Mandy, draw the reluctant Dennis and Sheila Tippitt into a conversation. Sheila has suggested a holiday to try to right her ailing marriage; Rosemary is looking for a husband for Mandy. The comic tone of the play shifts continually between Rosemary's malapropisms and Dennis' grimly humorous bigotry with the close of the play finding Rosemary unmoved by the chaos she has caused and Dennis near to a nervous breakdown!
A very popular comedy, still frequently performed today, in which the humour masks deep-seated problems, Departure is a play about communication skills in which a very optimistic mother and daughter meet a very pessimistic man and his depressed wife. Based on the author's experiences of being stuck at Gatwick airport in the '80s, the play can be set in the late '80s or updated to the present.
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Stephen Smith started writing plays in 1985 and has so far had fifteen published. He either directs or appears in every play and has won numerous Best New Play Awards. His plays have been produced not only throughout the UK but in many overseas countries as well, with Parentc ...
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