There's A Burglar In My Bed
by Michael E Parker, Michael Parker

Name: There's A Burglar In My Bed
Brand: Michael E Parker
SKU: 9780573629419

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

William Worthington III and his wife are both going to be away for the weekend from their two hundred acre Massachusetts estate with its twenty six bedroom mansion, he to Delaware to shoot ducks with the Duponts and she to her mother's in Boston.

Both have, in fact, arranged trysts with their respective lovers in the estate's beach cottage.

Inevitably their paths cross and divorce is in the air.

Neither is willing to give up the world famous Worthington necklace, so each devises a plan to steal it.

True to the laws of farce, both simulated burglaries are scheduled for same night.

Fun filled chaos ensues: mistaken identities, unlikely romantic liaisons, a bumbling private detective, a fake necklace, one very determined nymphomaniac and two scantily clad pseudo nuns sharing a single skirt - where did they come from?

Confusion is piled on confusion until the mystery of who has the real necklace and who has the fake is revealed in a surprise ending.

Press Reviews

"The audience LOVED it. I've never heard such sustained laughter and experienced such audience buy-in in the theatre at the Kirkwood Community Center in the decades I've been seeing Guild performances there."
— Laura Kyro/ KDHX.org

"The laughs come thick and furious."
— Boynton Times

"A hilarious lampoon."
— Naples Daily News

"Parker's best."
— Palm Beach Post

"Just how good is the script, when the cast never seem aware of the hilarity of their lines."
— Ambience Magazine, Naples Daily News

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
William Davis brash and overbearing, so totally incompetent he becomes likable; how he succeeded in becoming a licensed private investigator is a mystery to all who know him	male	—	brash and overbearing, so totally incompetent he becomes likable; how he succeeded in becoming a licensed private investigator is a mystery to all who know him
Marianne Van Kleef 25+; beautiful, sophisticated and sensuous, but not cheap in any way, a New England socialite; she would be hard for any man to resist, and, as we see, none of them do	female	—	25+; beautiful, sophisticated and sensuous, but not cheap in any way, a New England socialite; she would be hard for any man to resist, and, as we see, none of them do
Ashley Worthington 35+; scheming, cold and calculating, yet with a tender side, wife of William W. Worthington III, typical New England "aristocrat"	female	—	35+; scheming, cold and calculating, yet with a tender side, wife of William W. Worthington III, typical New England "aristocrat"