Out of Order (play)

Out of Order (play)
Out of Order
Written by Ray Cooney
Date premiered 1990
Place premiered Leatherhead
Surrey
Original language English
Genre Comedy

Out of Order is a 1990 farce written by English playwright Ray Cooney. It had a long run at the Shaftesbury Theatre starring Donald Sinden and Michael Williams.[1]

As with many other Ray Cooney plays, it features a lead actor (in this case a junior UK minister) who has to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation (in this case a planned adultery with a secretary) with the help of an innocent side-kick (in this case the minister's personal private secretary), who gets more and more embroiled in the increasingly tangled tale improvised by the lead character as events unfold. The action takes place in a suite in a posh London hotel and revolves around accidents caused by a defective sash window.

In 1997 the play was made into a successful Hungarian movie "A Miniszter Félrelép".[2]

Further reading

  • Cooney, Ray (1991). Out of Order: A Comedy (First ed.). London: Samuel French. ISBN 0573018588. 
  1. ^ http://www.shaftesburytheatre.com/about-us
  2. ^ http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_miniszter_f%C3%A9lrel%C3%A9p
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