stage plays by ian hornby

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Where There's A Will...






   comedy 4m 4f or 3m 5f full length
 
Linda Parkinson

The play opens amid a lengthy blazing row between Linda and husband Derek. Linda accuses him (quite rightly) of being unfaithful, but during the row it transpires that the other woman is Linda's younger sister. Derek is unaware that Linda is also having an affair - with Derek's younger brother! Each avows revenge, and as the result of a series of bungled murder attempts the bodies fall thick and fast. The vicar is the first to go, if only they can get rid of that annoying body - and his bike! Despite their attempts to dispose of one another, Linda and Derek survive to the close, where, perhaps inevitably, they manage to murder each other.

By the end of the play the entire cast has been killed - but most of them deserved it anyway!

An alternative version uses 3m 5f to suit casting - the visitors Julie and Peter are replaced by "maiden aunts" Margaret and Barbara.

Mount Gambier Theatre Group,
Derek Parkinson

her husband

Mary

their housekeeper

The Vicar

Colin Parkinson

Derek's brother

Carol Hargreaves

Linda's sister

Julie

a friend

Peter

Julie's husband

 

Alternative casting

Margaret

instead of Julie

Barbara

instead of Peter