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Funny Business

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 4m

Derek Benfield

Funny Business
by Derek Benfield

Ferris has agreed to look after his sister's seedy hotel but hasn't anticipated the arrival of a notorious hotel critic/journalist. Or that this will coincide with an assortment of guests who have guilty secrets they do not wish to have divulged. Fer…

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    2w, 4m

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Ferris has agreed to look after his sister's seedy hotel but hasn't anticipated the arrival of a notorious hotel critic/journalist. Or that this will coincide with an assortment of guests who have guilty secrets they do not wish to have divulged. Ferris is caught up in a dizzy round of lies and subterfuge as he tries to protect the hotel's reputation in the eyes of the journalist, a task made more difficult by the fact that he does not know which of his guests is the journalist! A riotous sequel to Bedside Manners.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A hotel foyer, two bedrooms.

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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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