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Author’s Note
Any comedy owes a far larger debt to its actors than most authors would care to admit and so in keeping with this convention I shall say nothing in gratitude to a splendid cast except to thank them for dinner at Poole. To Jonathan Lynn, the director, who read the first draft and forced me to rewrite for weeks, a particular thank you is due for dinner in Hampstead. To Michael White, the producer, thanks are due for dinners in Knightsbridge and St Tropez. To Eyre Methuen, publishers, thanks for dinner in Covent Garden, and to Geoffrey Strachan, editor, thanks for the sandwiches. Finally I should like to thank my wife, not only for the dinners she cooked, but for forcing me to retrieve this play from a shack in the woods to read to her, shortly before a forest fire destroyed both the shack and the woods. To you, Tania, this play is dedicated.
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ERIC
IDLE was born in South Shields in 1943, educated in Wolverampton and at
Pembroke College Cambridge, where he was President of Footlights 1964/5. He has
written for and appeared in many TV shows including Do Not Adjust Your Set,
Frost Report, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rutland Weekend
Television, The Rutles and Saturday Night Live. He has
appeared in three Monty Python films and in addition to the best selling Python
books he has also published Hello Sailor and The Rutland Dirty Weekend
Book. Pass the Butler is his first stage play.