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Once a Rake

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 4m

Kay Bannerman, Harold Brooke

A comedy in 3 acts

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Once a Rake

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
Joh Tuffnell is the victim of his wife's boredom and is slung out in favour of a click, happy-go-lucky, slightly unscrupulous stage lawyer whom she finds temporarily more attractive.
History
Theatre Royal, Windsor. October 1958

Mary Tuffnell - loves her husband but swept off her feet by Lawrence. 

Lawrence Cook - charming and vivacious

John Tuffnell - kind, simple and perhaps a bit dull

Fillery

Pauline - excessively refined

Rita - a drama student

Bobbie Emswell - harmless, lovable and laughable

  • Time Period 1950s
  • Setting A passage in a block of flats
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

Authors

Kay Bannerman

Kay Bannerman
Kay Bannerman was born October 11, 1919, in Hove, Sussex, England and died March 31, 1991, in Marbella, Spain. Performer and playwright, Bannerman began her career as a stage actress in the late 1930s. She had major roles in London productions of Major Barbara and The Gambler ...
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Harold Brooke

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