The Western Players
 

Cash on Delivery

by Michael Cooney 

Shown : Dec 2002
Cast : Tony Manders (Eric Swan), Adrian Peace (Norman), Fran Loss (Mrs Swan), Geoff Peace (Albert Swan), Robert Elrick (DSS Inspector), Shirley Dodson (Social Worker), Karen Evans (DSS Supervisor), Colin Ogden (Undertaker), Kate Lyne (Norman's Girlfriend)

Producer: Edna Reeves

 

This hilarious farce, written by Michael Cooney (son of Ray Cooney, star of many well known comedies) concerns, amongst others: a DSS fraudster, an alcoholic inspector, a confused undertaker, a very confused lodger, a comatose hospital porter, a bewildered counsellor and a washing machine with a mind of its own. There are mistaken identities, accidents of coincidence, words with double meanings and 'near misses' in timing, which all lead to a simple event descending into a nightmare of lie upon lie until it is hard to tell what is true and what is not. This play provides a hilarious evening of entertainment with laugh following laugh as the characters try to extract themselves out of the chaos they put themselves in.