Busybody
September 1982

Written by Jack Popplewell

Directed by Melody Harbour

 
Cast List
Mrs Piper
Brenda Pearson
 
Richard Marshall
Steve Berry
 
D.C. Goddard
Kevin Stevens
 
D.S. Baxter
Nigel Medhurst
 
Claire Marshall
Carol Knowler
 
Marian Selby
Rosina Fletcher
 
Robert Westerby
Alex Bushell
 
Vicki Reynolds
Rebecca King
 

 
Stage Manager
Graham Hore
 
Assisted By
Alistair Giddings & Mike Pantry
 
Scenery Painting
Janine Kitchener
 
Prompt
Helen Saunders
 
Props
Kay Stevens
 
Lighting & Sound
Michael Harley
 
Costumes
Cast members
 
 

This hilarious play centres on Lily Piper, a voluble cleaning woman, who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch. She lives in the basement of the office building she cleans and one night finds a body. By the time the police arrive, there is no body and no evidence. The wrong alarms are sent out, murdered men turn up alive, and the whole thing is chalked up to the cleaning woman's imagination until an unidentified body is discovered on a distant hill and the cleaning woman uncovers more evidence in the course of her duties. Is the company owner staging his own murder? Or did he kill his wife's lover? Is the lover a firm employee or someone else? Where do the two female assistants fit in? What is the wife withholding?

 
 
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