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Out of Order

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4f, 6m

Ray Cooney

Out of Order
by Ray Cooney

When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong.

Out of Order

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4f, 6m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1991 Olivier Award Winner, Best Comedy

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Summary

When Richard Willey, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely successful sequel to Two into One.

Winner! 1991 Olivier Award Winner, Best Comedy'Gleefully funny.'  - Guardian

'Made me laugh more than any play I have seen in the West End this year.' - Evening Standard; 

'A classic.'  - Today 

Keywords
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting An hotel suite
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"Gleefully funny." - Guardian

"Made me laugh more than any play I have seen in the West End this year." - Evening Standard

"A classic." - Today


Music

Song Samples

Ray Cooney's interview for Dave's Gone By

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Ray Cooney

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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