stage plays by ian hornby
unemployed
Unemployed Derek doesn't really want to work, and wife Jane has had enough. After a row she walks out on him, suggesting he should go through the papers for a job. Enraged, he decides to advertise for a new wife. The series of applicants each looks too good to be true at first, but finally he rejects every one. He never realises that each has a quality he had forgotten existed in Jane, who turns up as the final applicant. She turns the interview round on him and offers him the job.
The play has six female characters, but these can be doubled up as necessary and could - if desired, using quick costume changes - all be performed by the same actress with challenging, dramatic effect.
his wife
tele-ads girl
"jet-setter"
feminist
motherly, homely
innocent, naive