The Crooked Friday

The Crooked Friday is a comedy stage play by Monckton Hoffe (born Reaney Monckton Hoffe-Miles), an Irish playwright and screenwriter. (born on 26th December, 1880, in Connemara, Ireland, and died on 4th November, 1951, aged 70 years, in London, United Kingdom.)

The original text

A party was motoring on the road near Windsor when they discovered a baby in a ditch. Micky, the little boy with them discovers that the child is still alive, and later, in a spirit of mischief, he crookedly tattoos "Friday," the day on which she was found, on her arm. So she grows up and becomes know as "Crooked Friday,m" and when she is 15, disappears and reappears in the underworld where she became a notious crook. Michael, however, followed her career and actually fell in love with her. He endows her anonymously with some money, and - such is the plot - borrows it off her, holding the belief that women never love but the worthless. Later, romance enters and - well, there you are.

Performance history in South Africa

The Crooked Friday opened at His Majesty's Theatre, Johannesburg, on 1st February, 1926. Starring Mary Glynne as "Crooked Friday" and Dennis Neilson-Terry as Michael (Micky), the boy grown up.