Bedroom Farce: A Comedy in Two Acts
- ISBN-10
- 0573605696
- ISBN-13
- 9780573605697
- Category
- Comedy
- Pages
- 93
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- Samuel French , Limited
- Author
- Alan Ayckbourn
Description
Domestic comedy intercuts scenes in 3 bedrooms. Couple having marital difficulties disrupts the evening for 3 other couples, friends, husband's parents, and husband's former girlfriend and her husband. 2 acts, 4 men, 4 women, 1 interior.
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