Barking in Essex

by Clive Exton

Overview

Freedom finally beckons for Algie Packer, Essex's most notorious gangster. He's done seven years inside and now he's coming home to collect his reward – £3,672,000 in untraceable notes.

But there's something Algie's family have forgotten to mention . . .

The Packers are Essex's lovable, but most dysfunctional family. Witness their desperate attempts to cover their tracks before Algie arrives to collect what is rightfully his.

Barking In Essex is a riotously funny comedy by Clive Exton, published and produced for the first time in 2013.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472524553
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Series:	Modern Plays
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Clive Exton was a London-born screenwriter and playwright. His writing credits include the highly-acclaimed film 10 Rillington Place, as well as Poirot and Jeeves and Wooster. Exton wrote the new book for the PG Wodehouse original for a musical based on Damsels in Distress, as well as a new stage comedy Twixt, which premiered in Paris in 1996 and played in Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence. He also adapted Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy for a production at the Duke of York Theatre. Productions of his own plays, Neddy and Bumps and Barking In Essex, were being planned at the time of his death in 2007.

Editorial Reviews

Cheerfully crude new black comedy” —The Times

“Those who like their comedy black, blue, an raucous will have a ball.” —Telegraph

“Humorous delight to be had” —Observer

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