A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
Entertaining Angels
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 1m
Entertaining Angels
by Richard Everett
As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases.
-
Cast Size
4w, 1m -
Duration
105 Minutes -
Subgenre
Faith-Based -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences, Adult, Senior
Details
Summary
As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases, usually to the new - female - vicar, Sarah. The return of Grace's eccentric missionary sister Ruth prompts some disturbing revelations, which force her to confront Bardolph's ghost and the truth of their marriage. At the same time Sarah reveals some un-clergy-like credentials of her own to Grace's therapist daughter Jo. Entertaining Angels asks whether God can be trusted to do anything right at all, "Or is the whole thing a divine exercise in trial and error?"
Cast Attributes
Keywords
Performing Groups
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting
A rural English vicarage garden patio & stream bankside
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration 105 Minutes
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Media
"Richard Everett has written a warm, glowing, serious comedy, like an Ayckbourn play finished by JM Barrie." The Sunday Times.
"Everett, a dramatist new to me, has come up with that increasingly rare commodity, a boulevard comdey that is both affecting and entertaining .. This is a funny, touching, and genuinely thought-provoking comedy and one that surely deserves a West End transfer." The Daily Telegraph.
"A very English comedy with some real emotion .. adultery, miscarriage, divorce and deception interestingly handled all, are just some of the problems that writer Richard Everett beds down among well-received jokes ... a sure-fire hit." London Evening Standard.
"This deceptively profound comic play was thoroughly absorbing and entertaining. It ... surprised and delighted with its ability to shake preconceptions." - Irene Brown, EdinburghGuide.com
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
