Out of Order
Written by Ray Cooney
Cast
| Richard Willey | CHRIS BOUGOURD |
| The Manager | ROGER MANCINI |
| The Waiter | TREVOR JONES |
| Jane Worthington | NATALIE THOUMINE |
| A Body | MARK OGIER |
| George Pigden | MARTYN MITCHELL |
| The Maid | LINDSEY VEILLARD |
| Ronnie Worthington | ANDREW HARTE |
| Pamela Willey | JENNY GRIFFITHS |
| Gladys | COLLEEN WILLIAMS |
Synopsis
Out Of Order is a farce written by English playwright Ray Cooney. It had a long run at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. The play is the sequel to Two Into One and has a cast of six men and four women.
The plot revolves around Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, who plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the Opposition’s secretaries. Unfortunately, things go disastrously wrong, beginning with the discovery of a ‘body’ trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window.
Desperately trying to get out of an extremely sticky situation, Richard calls his PPS, George Pigden who, through Richards’s lies sinks further and further into trouble with everybody and ends up going through an identity crisis. Things go from bad to worst with the arrival of Ronnie, Jane’s distraught young husband and with the addition of an unscrupulous waiter, Mrs Pamela Willey and Nurse Gladys Foster things really come to a head!
Out Of Order won London’s Lawrence Olivier Award for “Comedy of the Year” and went on to be another world-wide hit.
