Out of Order
by Ray Cooney
April 2018
Tory Minister Richard Willey is about to embark on a night of passion with the Labour Leader’s typist, Jane Worthington, in room 648 of the Westminster Hotel. Naturally, things don’t run as smoothly as Mr Willey anticipates and their secret liaison is drastically hindered by the discovery of a dead body trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window.
Enlisting the help of his hapless private secretary George Pigden, Willey’s sticky situation goes from bad to worse with the arrival of his loving wife, Jane’s distraught husband, an unscrupulous waiter, a frustrated hotel manager, the bossy Nurse Foster, and a Spanish maid.
ACT I
Early evening - the lounge of Suite 648 on the sixth floor of the Westminster Hotel, London
ACT II
Later that evening - same location
CAST
RICHARD WILLEY
THE MANAGER
JANE WORTHINGTON
THE WAITER
A BODY
GEORGE PIGDEN
THE MAID
RONNIE WORTHINGTON
PAMELA WILLEY
NURSE FORSTER
Gus Nichols
John Ellaway
Birgitta Morton
Geoff Lovegrove
Robert Lambert
Simon Grier
Patricia Tanner
Malcolm Shaw
Gwen Priestman
Deirdre Potts
Small Running Title
CREW
DIRECTORS
STAGE MANAGER
ASST. STAGE MANAGER
STAGE CREW
PROMPT & SPECIAL EFFECTS
PROPS
LIGHTING & SOUND
STAGE DESIGN
BOX OFFICE
PUBLICITY & WEBSITE
FRONT OF HOUSE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dick White
Edwina Scanlon
Ivan Sheppard
Harry Sheppard
David Murphy
Brian Crawford
Geoff Lovegrove
Sally Crawford
Cilla Turner
Simon Grier
Patrick Molloy
Ann Rath
Simon Grier
Robert Dalzell
Ian Crowley
Jacqui Armitage