Written By
Philip King
Where and When
April 1960
The Plot
So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the Air Force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who “touches alcohol for the first time in her life,” four men in clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which (for disguised as one is an escaped prisoner), and a sedate Bishop aghast at all these goings-on and the trumped up stories they tell him.
Cast
- Ida – Pamela Mottram
- Miss Skillon – Margaret Williams
- The Rev. Lionel Toop – Kenneth Dodd
- Penelope Toop – Elizabeth Anthony
- L/Cpl Clive Winton – John Anthony
- The Intruder – Paddy Brooman
- The Bishop of Lax – Donald Waterfield
- The Rev. Arthur Humphreys – Sam Fawcett
- Sergt. Towers – George Burry
Creative Team
- Producers – Anthony Allison and Thelma Dryden
- Stage Managers – Thelma Dryden and Edmund Henbest
- Lighting – Evan Godin
- Wardrobe – Stella Tory
- Properties – Pat Wood
- Make-up – L. H. Mottram
- Prompt – Margaret Dodd
- House Manager – W. Leslie Young
- Business Manager – Kenneth Dodd
Programme
