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    L'Hotel Le Big Knob
    L'Hotel Le Big Knob
    L'Hotel Le Big Knob
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    L'Hotel Le Big Knob

    By Anthony E Thorogood

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    'An absurdly funny mix up that could happen to anyone.'

    'So funny I laughed out loud.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony E Thorogood
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370184156
    L'Hotel Le Big Knob
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    Anthony E Thorogood

    I was born in London England in 1953, which makes me a baby boomer I think. Dad ran a market stall in Woolwich’s Beresford Square selling anything and everything. A natural Cockney salesman with all the patter that goes with it but when he was told to give it up or die from the cold, we packed up shop and migrated to Australia.In my youth I always enjoyed my old Dad’s tales of his adventures in the navy in WWII and of his childhood hop picking in Kent, I got my love of storytelling from my Dad. I wrote a book on cider in 2008 after being awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel around the world and drink and research cider, the cider book sold out. I followed the success of my cider book by writing a series of madcap comic extravaganzas: Bigfoot Littlefoot & West. I followed the Bigfoot books with my Jack Hamma action adventure series starting with Shakespeare on the Roof. Then in 2015 I wrote three romantic travel adventures starting with Sex Sardines and Sauerkraut.This is the bit where I state that I am happily living the good life on our 5 acre property, on the beautiful island of Tasmania, spending my time walking, cycling, planting trees, growing vegetables and writing the odd book, very odd some people say.

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      L'Hotel Le Big Knob - Anthony E Thorogood

      L'Hotel Le Big Knob

      A Farcical Comedy

      by Anthony E Thorogood

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      Copyright Anthony E Thorogood 2016

      Published at Smashwords

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      Thank you for downloading my ebook. Please note that this book took a lot of time and trouble to create and is subject to copyright restrictions and must not be redistributed.

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      L'Hotel Le Big Knob

      Contents:

      Introduction

      Cast

      Act One: Arriving

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Scene Three

      Scene Four

      Scene Five

      Act Two: Rise and Shine

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Scene Three

      Scene Four

      Scene Five

      Scene Six

      Scene Seven

      Scene Eight

      Scene Nine

      Scene Ten

      Scene Eleven

      Anthony E Thorogood

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      Introduction

      A Classic Farce

      One of my all time favourite plays is the farce Rookery Nook. I went to Sydney when I was in my early twenties and saw it there and years later when I worked in Swanage, England I went up to London for the weekend and stayed with my friend and singer Michele Galazowsky and a group of us decided to go up to the West End and catch a play, Rookery Nook was suggested, 'I'll be in on that,' was my reply. I thoroughly enjoyed it again. Since then I have had a great respect for a good farce and have always wanted to write one. That is I have always wanted to write a farce with a little bit more and in L'Hotel Le Big Knob I feel I have achieved this.

      Fremantle, an ageing academic, and Kimberley, a young girl from a reception desk, who has barely reached the age of consent, arrive at the L'Hotel Le Big Knob in Northern Tasmania, they have booked a deluxe room and plan to have a dirty weekend. In the meantime Mauritius, a headmistress from a top girls school, who is a bit tired of being left on the shelf, and Blake, a young apprentice chef with a preference for fun, arrive to take up the other deluxe room in the hotel for a bit of a slap and tickle. Problems begin however when Fremantle and Mauritius suddenly come face to face and think they recognise each other. The play is, on the face of it, a classic farce but is it?

      Cast:

      Fremantle St John Featherstonhaugh: A university professor from Western Australia, he is approaching retirement and is a gangly, energetic, over enthusiastic type who gets very excited by small things. Not a man with any dress sense but carries around with him a sense of his own importance in spite of his proclaimed socialist views.

      Kimberley: A young girl from Western Australia she is about eighteen years of age, she works as a receptionist at the University of Western Australia where she met Fremantle. She is naïve to say the least and a bit dim but honest and keen on Fremantle. She wears tight, leopard skin pants, a tight and revealing pink top, a string of very large fake pearls and high heeled boots, her dress sense, to put it in a nutshell, is cheap and tacky but it suits her.

      Eugene: Any age but he is older rather than younger, middle aged, he dresses appropriately for his job, black shoes, black trousers, white shirt, perhaps with frills down the front and a bow tie, even a black waist coat can be worn. He is short balding and podgy. His story comes out during the course of the play but how much you believe and don't believe is up to you. He is one of many modern people no wife, no kids, no family and desperate for someone to talk to.

      Mauritius: A middle aged, slightly rotund, red headed, school mistress. Mauritius teaches at an exclusive girl school in Victoria but in spite of this she is a proclaimed communist. She is a bit finicky about language, likes to be listened to and brings Blake away for the weekend simply to get back at her master mariner husband who has a girl in every port, or does he?

      Blake: Blake's hair is slicked back and he wears trendy pointed shoes. He also wears designer jeans and a leather jacket. He must be between seventeen and twenty one and thinks a lot about his own sexual prowess and his good looks. He thinks he is hot to very hot and he also believes that gay men have more fun so at times he fakes being gay.

      Cleaner: About the same age as Eugene, dresses like an old fashioned cleaning lady, floral dress, hair tied back, apron, head scarf and orthotic sandals or rubber boots. She also has a slight limp. She has worked hard all her life, has saved a little money and owns her own house but she is lonely and thinks that there is something missing in her life.

      Act One

      Arriving

      Scene One:

      (L'Hotel Le Big Knob in Northern Tasmania. We see the foyer of the hotel and in the centre is the reception desk, to the

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