Wildehouse

My short piece Wildehouse will be performed at A Friend of a Friend Theatre's First Drafts, an evening of new writing, at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, on Sunday 22 January.

Samuel Wildehouse is up to his immaculately cravatted neck in it this time and no mistake! There's been a mix-up with an engagement ring and a poodle, his Aunt Lucretia is on the warpath, and his parasitic lifestyle will inevitably drive the proletariat to revolution. Can his indefatigable butler Rinehart get him out of this one? A short piece parodying Edwardian drawing-room comedy and considering whether it's really funny any more now that Edwardian drawing-room comedians are back in political power.

(A full-length play based along somewhat similar lines, In a Handbag, Darkly, will show on the Edinburgh Fringe 2012 if I can get the funds together. Eccentric millionaires are welcome to email me.)