A Mad Breakfast
A Mad Breakfast is a one-act play by Isabel McReynolds Gray ()[]
Contents
The original text
Written in 1929 during the Vaudeville era, the comedy takes place at a boarding house where two boarders and practical jokers, Jones and Miss Brown, tell each of the guests at their boarding house that a wealthy visitor, Mr. Long, is greatly interested in their individual hobbies. Long on the other hand is told the house is an insane asylum. Chaos ensues.[1]
Published by W.H. Baker, 1957, and later reprinted in the series Baker's Plays by Samuel French, Inc. in 2011.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as 'n Malhuis vir Ontbyt by Bernie Visser: .
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Breakfast-Isabel-McReynolds-Gray/dp/0874407001
https://books.google.co.za/books?id=H8LyE-ef9A8C&source=gbs_book_other_versions
https://www.shoreschool.org/news-detail?pk=1087630#
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