John smith danny dyer has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. Run for your wife, its ray cooneys youtube channel film. Performed by the melbourne french theatre company in 2008, entirely in french with english subtitles. Authors ray cooney venue royal alexandra theatre show run june 25, 1984 august 18, 1984 producer director paul elliott, the theatre of comedy ray cooney genre comedy cast robin nedwell, eric sykes, derek griffiths. His biggest success, run for your wife 1983, ran for nine years in londons west end and is its longestrunning comedy. Aug 01, 1984 with the comedy play run for your wife, i think the comedy as a whole was a well written play that kept the attention of the reader at all times. The story concerns a taxi driver who gets away with having two wives in different areas of london.
A bigamist taxi driver finds his covert lifestyle threatened with discovery. Ray cooney film and tv limited free company information from companies house including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. Enjoying the attention is actor derek fowlds, who is preparing to join the cast of ray cooney s comedy play run for your wife at the criterion theatre, piccadilly. Run for your wife, a satirical farce by ray cooney, opens at aurora community theatre at 8 p. Raymond george alfred cooney, obe born 30 may 1932 is an english playwright and actor. Fortunately, for john, hes a taxi driver which involves varying shift work. Ray cooneys classic bedroom farce, run for your wife. Ray cooneys run for your wife is set to be a smash. A british farce written by english playwright ray cooney comes to campus this weekend. John smith is a taxi driver and very ordinary except that he has two wives. Aug 30, 2014 run for your wife, its ray cooneys youtube channel ray has all the cosy charm of a favourite uncle, and he delights in deploying jokes from a comic arsenal eight decades in the making.
Ray cooneys sequel to run for your wife is fantastic it is an intelligently written and wellacted farce that shows cooney has not lost any of his magic. Get us in your inbox sign up to our newsletter for the latest and greatest from your city and beyond. At 14, he appeared in song of norway at the palace theatre, london, before joining. John smith is a taxi cab driver getting away with having two wives in two different areas of london because of his irregular working schedule.
Ray cooneys out of order, the olivier award winning comedy is coming to the theatre royal nottingham. It runs in the family by ray cooney ebooks download city. Run for your wife by ray cooney 1 set, 6 males, 2 females. May 30, 2016 a behind the scenes look at a scene during our production of the ray cooney farce it runs in the family. View download pdf file, link opens in new window 16 may 2019.
He has a loving wife named mary in a flat in wimbledon, and he has another loving wife named barbara who lives in a different flat only four minutes away. When richard willey jeffrey harmer, a government junior minister, plans to spend the evening with jane worthington susie amy, one of the oppositions typists, in the westminster hotel, things do disastrously wrong beginning with the discovery of a body trapped in the hotels. Run for your wife poster poster by schwartz organisation ltd. With danny dyer, denise van outen, sarah harding, neil morrissey. Run for your wife opened on broadway at the virginia theatre on march 7, 1989, directed by and starring ray cooney himself as taxi driver john smith, and featuring kay walbye as his wimbledon wife, hilary labow as his streatham wife, gareth hunt and dennis ramsden as the police sergeants, and paxton whitehead as smiths friend and accomplice.
His 1983 farce, from which it is adapted, ran for nearly nine years in the west end and is still. John smith has been happily involved in a bigamist marriage for five years. Run for your wife poster schwartz organisation ltd. Alls well until an accident interrupts his busy schedule and the forces of law and order become involved.
Run for your wife, its ray cooneys youtube channel ray has all the cosy charm of a favourite uncle, and he delights in deploying jokes from a comic arsenal eight decades in the making. Ray cooney, 73, was born in london and is best known for writing the farces run for your wife and funny money. It runs in the family rover dramawerks do run, run rover dramawerks revives the ray cooney farce it runs in the family, and has a ball with it. We find john smith eighteen years later, still happily married to his two unsuspecting wives. In the comedy run for your wife, london cab driver john smith almost got caught when he got mugged and ended up in the hospital. Poster advertising run for your wife museum number s. In run for your wife, the english farce by ray cooney now at the arena players repertory theater in east farmingdale, john smith, a taxi driver, is having a very, very bad morning. Tots production of run for your wife underway local. And he flits between streatham and wimbledon a distance of only 2. Run for your wife will run for 5 nights from tuesday april 10th to saturday april 14th at 8pm nightly in the oakwood arms. From the author of run for your wife, this wild comedy starts out when mild.
It runs in the family open casting call the gallery. Reading for ray cooneys run for your wife august 4, 2011 2012 run for your wife, productions martin mcnelis there will be a reading for this hilarious farce in the oakwood arm s, on thursday 1st september at 8pm. I think it had great humor which helped with the whole process of reading it and finding it enjoyable to read at the same time. Run for your wife as funny as leprosy the independent. As with most successful comedic works whether movie, stage, t.
Theatre off the square is holding auditions for run for your wife monday and tuesday. Ray cooney plays filing history free information from. This superb example of the british farce had audiences rolling in. Mar 12, 20 where can i read online or download a pdf of any of thse plays the lonesome west by martin mcdonagh the suicide by nicolai erdman run for your wife by ray cooney or. When he heroically attempts to save an old woman from two muggers, he gets bashed by her handbag and. Ray cooney began his theatrical career as a boy actor in song of norway at the palace theatre in 1946. Performed by the melbourne french theatre company in 2008, entirely in french. Honor blackman and david jason on the red carpet premiere interview for run for your wife the film duration. The story concerns john smith, a taxi driver and bigamist.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Tots holding auditions for run for your wife local. The hand, directed by henry cass 1960 the night we got the bird, directed by darcy conyers 1961 what a carve up. With the comedy play run for your wife, i think the comedy as a whole was a well written play that kept the attention of the reader at all times. Run for your wife a comedy acting edition cooney, ray on. It is, quite simply, the funniest thing that i have ever seen. Ray cooney published by samuel french ltd 9780573019753.
Company name changed run for your wife film limited\certificate issued on 070415. For five years, he had been living a double life, with two wives. Theatre off the square in weatherford presents the second production of their 2020 season of shows, run for your wife, written by ray cooney and produced by special arrangement with samuel. Following a period in repertory theatres around the uk, he joined the brian rix company at the whitehall theatre and it was during this period he began his writing career including the west end hits move over mrs markham, run for your wife, two into one, out of order, it runs in the family. Run for your wife had a highly successful nine year run in the west enda superb example of the classic british farcethis comedy had audiences rolling in the aisles in london and new york. The outlander star brings his character into the most dangerous situation yet.
Lots and lots of homophobia, but in a farcical context. I was lucky enough to see run for your wife on stage in london several times, starring ray cooney himself. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. He lives with michelle in stockwell and stephanie in finsbury. Ray cooney s sequel to run for your wife is fantastic it is an intelligently written and wellacted farce that shows cooney has not lost any of his magic. The no refund theatre performance of the comedy, run for your wife, deals with a character named john smith who lives in london and drives a taxicab. Out of order is a 1990 farce written by english playwright ray cooney. Run for your wife tells the story of john smith, a precisely. Run for your wife, directed by ray cooney and john luton 2012, based on the play run for your wife screenwriter. The sequel to ray cooney s run for your wife finds our bigamist taxidriver, john smith, still keeping both his families one in wimbledon and one in streatham happy and blissfully. Canterbury players amateur dramatic society scripts catalogue. He now has a sixteenyear old son, gavin, by barbara in streatham, and a fifteenyear old daughter, vicki, by. He has a lovely wife and a perfect existence in streatham and a lovely wife and a perfect existence in wimbledon. Tickets are 10 and are available on the door, or can be prebooked on 087 155 3055.
Performed by the melbourne french theatre company in 2008, entirely in french with. Run for your wife, by ray cooney, is directed by cynthia daniels. People for ray cooney film and tv limited 07589562 charges for ray cooney film and tv limited. Run for your wife a new comedy, ray cooney, jan 1, 1990, london england, 146 pages.
I didnt find any part of the play boring or even annoying. Join stageagent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Run for your wife a new comedy by cooney, ray isbn. Feb 22, 20 ray cooney visits donald sindon for run for your wife the movie. His biggest success was run for your wife, which ran for nine years in londons west end and. When he heroically attempts to save an old woman from two muggers, he gets bashed by her handbag and receives attention, not just from the hospital, but from the police. Run for your wife concord theatricals samuel french. Ray cooney s decision to make a feature film at the age of 80 is plucky, to say the least. Stockton civic theatre presents its 361st main stage production.
Ray cooney film and tv limited filing history free. Confusion reigns supreme and laughs come hot and heavy in run for your wife, the riotous, doorslamming comedy now on stage at the dutch apple dinner theatre. Produced by special arrangement with samuel french, inc run for your wife promises nonstop laughter at myers dinner theatre a taxi driver gets away with having two wives in different areas of london because of his irregular work schedule. Brian rix, having failed to secure the lease of the whitehall, went on tour in 1966 with chase me comrade. Gallery players is casting it runs in the family, a highenergy british farce by ray cooney, author of last seasons run for your wife. Set design by brian johnson costumes by liz kastner garvin lighting design by jessica. John smith is a london taxi driver who happens to have two wives and a very tight schedule to keep. The sequel to run for your wife finds our bigamist taxidriver, john smith, still keeping both his families one in wimbledon and one in streatham happy and blissfully unaware of each other however. Feb 06, 20 ray cooney s run for your wife is set to be a smash you cant get any more british than this, as ray cooney s long running smash hit comedy run for your wife finally came to the big screen.
Sep 03, 2005 ray cooney, 73, was born in london and is best known for writing the farces run for your wife and funny money. Run for your wife plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips. Ihuoma, a beautiful young widow, has the admiration of the. The critics have had their claws out for ray cooney s film adaptation of his successful stage farce run for your wife our critic branded it a catastrophe another called it as funny as. Ray cooney s classic bedroom farce, run for your wife.