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Summary. The marriage of Rupert and Sarah is on the rocks, and their friends Charles and Madge, both of whom are lawyers, agree to handle the divorce. After the curtain has been up a few minutes, Rupert forgets his lines, has a brainstorm, and threatens to kill Charles in full view of the audience because he’s been having an affair offstage ...
Kindly leave the stage. by. Chapman, John Roy, 1927-. Publication date. 1992. Publisher. New York : S. French. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
Apr 28, 2019 · A relatively brief comedy play, coming in at just under two hours with an interval, Kindly Leave The Stage is an utter hoot. Things start straightforwardly enough, with Madge (Cath Messum),...
Apr 28, 2019 · A cleverly crafted and light-hearted satirical mise en abyme, John Chapman’s Kindly Leave the Stage is amusingly brought to life by members of the Richmond Shakespeare Society in their friendly, intimate theatre, The Mary Wallace, situated on the banks of the River Thames in Twickenham.
Kindly Leave the Stage . John Chapman; Full Length Play, Comedy; 3M, 5F; ISBN: 9780573693649; The marriage of Rupert and Sarah is on the rocks and their friends Charles and Madge, both of whom are lawyers, agree to handle the divorce.
John Chapman’s double-decker of a farce imagines a stage performance of a play where one of the leading men loses the plot when he finds his wife has been having a backstage romance with another member of the cast.
Nathaniel Young as the cuckolded husband Rupert carries the play with lively bursts of righteous indignation, disbelief, and threats of murder. Lesley Davis gives a whip-smart performance of the adulteress Madge, whilst Jason Lawson plays the besotted lover like a lovesick teenager.
