Keeping Down With The Joneses
by Jeremy Lloyd

Keeping Down With The Joneses

Synopsis

Geoffrey Jones, M.P. and sometime architect, is convinced that the Russians are about to launch a nuclear strike against England.

He builds a bomb shelter equipped with everything he, his wife, and his wifes old mother will need to last out such a strike.

They plan to try the thing out for a three week experiment when, inadvertently, they are trapped inside with the mother, the telephone installer and an Indian milkman.

They try to make the best of the situation when who should enter through a side hatch but their next door neighbors who, ever striving to keep up with the Joneses, have now kept down with them by building their own abutting shelter.

By a strange set of circumstances the neighbors are also trapped and neither neighbor wants to admit this to the other.

Hilarious complications ensue until everyone gets out.

Performance

Cast

A medium cast size of 9 total roles, 4 female and 5 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1985
ISBN 10
0573611157
ISBN 13
9780573611155
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
114 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCCN
85158393
LCC
PR6053.H36 K4 1985
DCC
822/.914
Print
Keeping Down With The Joneses is a British comedy / farce play written by and published by Samuel French in New York, 1985. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573611155 and an ISBN-10 of 0573611157.

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