A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
The After-Dinner Joke
Short Play / 7f, 16m
Selby is a secretary at a big company. She moves to the charity
division as she wishes to do good and ends up running the
department.
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Cast Size
7f, 16m
Details
Summary
Her colleague wants to promote hard hitting, yet inoffensive publicity
campaigns but these all get vetoed or scuppered by central or local
governments. Selby goes to a country devastated by a hurricane and
promptly gets kidnapped by guerrillas. the story is interspersed with
short sketches: a thief steals money for charity and is angry when they
wont accept it; a Sheik buys Marks and Spencer and local dignitaries
enter a pie throwing contest.
Cast Attributes
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £40 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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Authors
Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sund ...