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Stranded in an airport lounge during the inevitable delay of a holiday flight to Spain, Rosemary - "I`m a one-parent family, you see" - and her carbon-copy, not-very-bright daughter, Mandy, draw the reluctant Dennis and Shelia Tippit into a conversation. Sheila has suggested a holiday to try to right her ailing marriage; Rosemary is looking for a husband for Mandy. The comic tone of the play shifts continually between Rosemary`s malapropisms and Dennis` grimly humorous bigotry with the close of the play finding Rosemary unmoved by the chaos she has caused and Dennis near to a nervous breakdown! A very popular comedy, still frequently performed today, in which the humour masks deep seated problems. A play about communication skills in which a very optimistic mother and daughter meet a very pessimistic man and his depressed wife. Based on the author`s experiences of being stuck at Gatwick airport in the eighties. Can be set in the late eighties or updated.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Departure
• Author: Stephen Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36
• EAN: 9780573120756
• ISBN: 0573120757
• ID: 09381622
• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Weight: 52 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 215 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 1989

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