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Caught on the Hop (Benfield - Revised Version)

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4f, 4m

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)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4f, 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.
  • 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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