by Ronald Millar
[Starring] Cicely Courtneidge, Robertson Hare, Naunton Wayne
A special performance from the Duchess Theatre, London
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The Kilpatrick family, of St. John's Wood, could be described even at the best of times as somewhat bizarre. Father is an ardent worker for the British Culture Council-art organisation devoted to teaching Morris dancing to Burmese washerwomen and dropping copies of Quentin Durward to Malayan communists. Mother - forced to cope with her eccentric husband, her adopted daughter Serena, and her younger daughter Barbara - takes the line of most resistance and fills her life with a perpetual if slightly 'butterfly' concern for the welfare of her family.
But it is with the eve of Serena's wedding that this comedy by Ronald Millar is mostly concerned, for into the pre-marriage preparations is projected a wealthy but recently deceased business man, who as an all too solid ghost and a lifelong bachelor, becomes personally concerned in this hilarious tangle between the quick and the dead...
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