Boulevard, London

1986

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Comedy

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One Waiter//Magician m or f

Notes: The Swap was also produced in a student production at Oxford University in 1988. A copy of a revised version of play may be obtained by contacting Mark on his website above. The play remains unpublished, and there are no fees for performance.

Synopsis: Thirty-something EDWARD is behaving badly, cheating on his long-term partner SUSIE with his old friend ROGER's younger girlfriend YASMIN. After a bizarre encounter with an itinerant Chinese magician, who sells her a potion that he claims will solve all her problems, SUSIE finds herself - in a dramatic coup de theatre - swapping bodies with EDWARD. After 'the swap' has taken place (the couple now dressed in replicas of each others' clothes, EDWARD as a woman, SUSIE as a man), it takes the couple a while to realize what has happened. Soon they understand. Everybody apart from themselves sees them as each other. So when ROGER and YASMIN arrive in a wine bar to celebrate SUSIE's 37th birthday, they mistake their old friends for each other, with disastrous results. SUSAN's rapid realization that EDWARD has been cheating on her is followed by EDWARD's own shocking surprise: as ROGER chases 'Susie' around the wine bar, EDWARD realizes that his old friend and his partner have also been misbehaving. The complications multiply in a farcical comedy of misunderstanding with a happy ending.