Plunder

Synopsis

In this ingeniously funny farce, everyone is trying to get their hands on Mr Hewlett's fortune. His housekeeper marries him on his deathbed, but his estranged grand-daughter Joan and her fiancee assume it is rightfully theirs. Perhaps society crook Freddy Malone, assisted by Joan's fiancee D'Arcy Tuck, has the only viable solution. Written in 1928 and originally performed at the Aldwych.

Our Review:

8 February 2007

The so-called Whitehall Farces took their name from the theatre where they were staged in their heyday in the 1920s and 30s. The name of playwright Ben Travers was synonymous with the success of these fast, funny and furious comedies, characterised by absurd situations and intricate plotting in the town mansions and country houses of the leisured upper classes.

Plunder is the goal of upper crust confidence tricksters Freddy and Prudence Malone. They move in high society - and they move fast to cover their tracks, carrying out expert burglaries at all the best house parties. Now they plan to part the fabulously wealthy Mrs Hewlett from the jewels she’s inherited from her late husband, who elevated her from the status of housekeeper to lady of the house when she inveigled him into marriage. But the plan is complicated by the intervention of his niece, Joan, and her silly ass of a fiancé, D’Arcy Tuck, both furious that they’ve been disinherited by this parvenu and her son Oswald...

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