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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 ...
Kindly Leave The Stage. Few would argue with the supermarket-style value of a play that gives you two for the price of one. 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.
Images. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Featured. ... Kindly leave the stage by Chapman, John Roy, 1927-Publication date 1992 Publisher New York : S. French
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. More information. Description. Available Material.
The rest of the cast try to ignore the incident and forge ahead with the original play, but Rupert picks up a knife and advances on Charles, who is forced to take cover in a large cabin trunk, which is on the set at the time. A real-life marital comedy now evolves. The play is a light-hearted tilt at the complete theatricality of stage folk.
Kindly Leave the Stage is new to me but with its set of stock characters I feel like I’ve seen it a hundred times.This English farce written by John Chapman, who has a heap of credits in the genre - Not Now, Darling, There Goes the Bride, and TV’s Are You Being Served - has devised a play-within-a-play piece about actors on a provincial tour who let their private lives surface in full-view ...
Kindly Leave the Stage. A comedy by John Chapman. The marriage of Rupert and Sarah is on the rocks, and their friends Charles and Madge agree to handle the divorce. After the curtain rises, Rupert forgets his lines and threatens to kill Charles because he’s been having an affair offstage with Rupert’s real wife, Madge.
