Busybody
Busybody is a comedy by Jack Popplewell (1909-1996)[1]
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The original text
A play about 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.
First performed on the West End at Duke of York's Theatre in 1964. Published by Samuel French in 1965.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Circa 1980(?): Performed in the Bloemfontein Civic Theatre by the Bloemfontein Repertory Society, directed by George Prosser
Sources
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/4703/busybody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Popplewell
Personal correspondence and a CV provided by Otto Bohlmann (January, 2020).
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