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Money Matters

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has bequeathed the manor to a stranger, Mr. Bud Davis, who is emphatic about turning it into a retirement home for ladies...

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences, Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

Details

Summary
The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has bequeathed the manor to a stranger, Mr. Bud Davis, who is emphatic about turning it into a retirement home for ladies. Determined to keep the manor, Annie invites an old friend and sorority sister, Charmaine Beauregard, to play the role of a ghost, to help convince Bud that the manor is unsuitable for a retirement home because it is haunted.
  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Setting Monet Manor. A Country Mansion…Somewhere USA. A late summer afternoon, the present. 
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Michael Parker

Michael Parker

Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By a ...

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Susan Parker

Susan Parker

Susan Parker, a prolific Concord Theatricals/Samuel French-published playwright, forged a remarkable theatrical legacy collaborating alongside her late husband with a portfolio of seven acclaimed plays that have graced stages both in the United States and across the globe sin ...
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