Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Stoppard
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Maddie Gotobed, Cocklebury-Smythe, McTeazle, Withenshaw, French, Bernard, Arthur
- Genres: Drama, Farce
- Subjects: 1970’s, Journalism or journalists, Sex or sexuality, Immigration or emigration, England or English people, Politicians, London, Ethics, Comedy
- Locales: London, England
The Play
Both Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land take place in “an overspill meeting room for House of Commons business in the tower of Big Ben”; the audience can quickly observe that it is scarcely an ideal place for the conducting of governmental business, as the famous bell chimes with comic regularity every quarter hour. A bawdy tone is quickly established when the first character to appear, a voluptuous secretary, slips into a pair of “French knickers”—a garment which she evidently dispenses as souvenirs, as each of the other characters inadvertently...
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