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Caught on the Hop (Benfield - Revised Version)

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 4m

Derek Benfield

Caught on the Hop (Revised version)
by Derek Benfield

When Phil tells his friend George that he is leaving his wife, Maggie, to move in immediately with a girl he met on the top of a bus George is appalled. However, George is persuaded to give a helping hand.

Caught on the Hop (Benfield - Revised Version)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 4m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce

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Summary
When Phil tells his friend George that he is leaving his wife, Maggie, to move in immediately with a girl he met on the top of a bus George is appalled. However, George is persuaded to give a helping hand, thus setting in motion the most frenetic confusion of mistaken identities, plotting and counterplotting that ever erupted on one quiet summer's day.
M4 (30s, middle age) F4 (20s, 37, middle age)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A sitting-room and patio

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Derek Benfield

Derek Benfield
Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor. He was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School. As a playwright, Benfield wrote more than 30 stage plays. Benfield had made his acting debut, in Yorks ...
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