Busybody
by Jack Popplewell

Busybody

Synopsis

All Groups / Mystery Characters: 4 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior This hilarious play centers on a voluble cleaning woman who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch.

She lives in the basement of the office building she cleans and one night finds a body.

By the time the police arrive, there is no body and no evidence.

The wrong alarms are sent out, murdered men turn up alive, and the whole thing is chalked up to the cleaning woman's imagination until an unidentified body is discovered on a distant hill and the cleaning woman uncovers more evidence in the course of her duties.

Is the company owner staging his own murder?

Or did he kill his wife's lover?

Is the lover a firm employee or someone else?

Where do the two female assistants fit in?

What is the wife withholding?

A thousand laughs and tingles delighted London audiences.

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 8 total roles, 4 female and 4 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1965
ISBN 10
0573015155
ISBN 13
9780573015151
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
86 pages
Language
English
Print
Busybody is a British comedy / farce play written by and published by Samuel French in 1965. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573015151 and an ISBN-10 of 0573015155.

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