Stage Plays by Ian Hornby

Courtesy The Penfold Players

 

An Eye for an Eye, Darling
 Farce - single set - 5m 6f

Synopsis
Peter decides to throw an anniversary party for wife Amanda.

Scatty housekeeper Mildred sees Peter with Caroline - a caterer. Amanda thinks Peter is cheating and hires a detective. Peter sees Amanda with the detective and, thinking she is cheating too, hires another detective.

Eventually four detectives are hired by different people. Everyone thinks someone is carrying on with someone else. 

 

Character Lines
Peter the husband

217
Amanda his wife

299
Mildred their housekeeper

154
Clara a friend

122
Brian a detective

55
Dorothy Amanda's mother

61
Albert Amanda's father

37
Colin a detective

29
Caroline a caterer

44
Charles Clara's husband

31
Pauline Peter's secretary

34

Author's notes
 My first ever play! I'd been coerced into appearing on stage for the first time to play Godfrey Pond in Bill Naughton's The Happiest Days of Your Life, and that gave me the bug for theatre. But we had such problems with babysitters that I couldn't be in the next one. So I thought, "how difficult can it be to write one?"

I'll let you be the judge of the answer to that question. I'm grateful to The Penfold Players, of Lincoln, for giving me that nerve-wracking first experience of seeing a piece of my own writing on stage for the first time, and I still hold dear the little plaque they presented me with afterwards (see left) which has me billed - quite rightly, ahem - above Sir Alan Ayckbourn! Ahem!

     

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