A Mad World, My Masters
Mad World, My Masters, A Author: Barrie Keeffe
First Performance: 1977, London
Published: 1977
Genre: Pol. com. in 2 acts
Setting: London, 1977
Cast: 8m, 4f
In an updating of Middleton's play for the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Keeffe offers a snapshot of London some 370 years later. An insurance scam goes wrong and leads to the death of the claimant, Harry Sprightly. Horace Claughton, a wealthy financier making preparations for the Jubilee, refuses to pay compensation to Sprightly's mother, so Grandma Sprightly gets her grandson Bill to burgle Claughton's home, and Grandma, Bill, Fox, and their accomplices plot to have their revenge on Claughton. Vi, Grandma's granddaughter, does a striptease as the newscaster Angela Rippon, and Claughton seduces her in her dressing room. He is photographed by newshound Fox but...
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