Move over Mrs Markham by Ray Cooney and John Chapman
This play was directed by Bonnie Bryant and opened in May 1977. This is
the ultra-typical British Farce, and probably Bonnie's favourite play. She
ended up directing it for the group three times; this one her first effort, then
again in April 1985, and finally in
September 1992 when it was a Wyong Drama
Group offering at Laycock Street Theatre.
In the play, Phillip Markham, a laid-back and slightly naive publisher of
story books for children, has been asked by his business partner, the roguish
Henry Lodge, if he can use his apartment to entertain his latest conquest, a
naughty call-centre girl called Miss Wilkinson, whilst the Markhams enjoy a rare
evening out.
At the same time, unknown to her husband, Joanna Markham has reluctantly
agreed to let her friend and Henry's wife, Linda Lodge, to use the flat to spend
the evening with her lover, the dashing Walter. The Markhams' evening out is
cancelled and they return home, with hilarious consequences.
Move
Over Mrs Markham Programme (from 1977)
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Ray Cooney Biographical notes
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