I went with my drama group to see a farce entitled 'Out of Order' at Chorley Little Theatre. This piece of work is a critical analysis on that play.

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Charlotte Seward                30/04/07

Critical Analysis-

Out of Order

        On Monday 15th of April, I went with my drama group to see a farce entitled   ’Out of Order’ at Chorley Little Theatre. This piece of work is a critical analysis on that play.  I was rather apprehensive about going to see this play, as it was a farce, a medium of theatre I am not accustomed to enjoy. However, I think the play was acted rather well, and I quite enjoyed it.

Out of Order is a farce, by Ray Cooney, set in a large London hotel. Plot was centred on the activities of a Labour minister, Richard Willey, a secretary from the Conservative party called Jane Worthington, Willey’s PPS George Pigden and a dead body!

Mr. Willey and Mrs Worthington are having a long-term affair, in the London hotel in which the play is set. However, both are married so they cannot have the scandal spread, and as they work for different political parties. However, when they find a dead body on the windowsill, they are faced with a dilemma:  do they tell the police, and face the music, or do they try to hide the body?

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They decide to hide the body and get Mr. Pigden round to the hotel to help them hide the body. They also have to get Mrs. Worthington out of the hotel as soon as possible. Most of the following scenes are a race to hide the body, and get rid of Mrs. Worthington without the manager of the hotel, or the room-service waiter seeing.

The plan really starts to go bad when Mrs. Worthington’s husband, Ronnie, turns up at the hotel and reveals the dead body to be a private detective sent by him to spy on his wife and ...

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