FREE SCRIPT REVIEW "My Wife's Family" (1931) by Fred Duprez (1884-1938)

Five Female Seven Male Side-splitting slapstick. A farcical comedy about a couple visited by a monster-in-law and her entourage. Her arrival soon turns the home into anything but peaceful. Features excruciatingly funny note passing, door slamming, mistaken identity action. The Nagg family with and their adorable Patriarch Noah and side-kick Knott - are characters we all are, and try not to be. Noah sings this song http://oldenglishsongs.wikia.com/wiki/Put_Me_Amongst_The_Girls_-_Lyric but any beer anthem would do. The male lead delivers a lot of deadpan one-liners like Groucho. This play requires no modernization. It mentions Mickey Mouse and Vacuum Cleaners. Some specific set requirements, namely a garden with a shade house that collapses loudly. requires the song "Yes sir, that's my baby" which appears to have two 78rpm gramaphone recorded versions out of copyright and readily available (DISCLAIMER: No liability, please don't sue me, Do your own research and all that) text http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1303091.txt The paradox is this; if you paid royalties on a script, you must seek legal permission for any variations. If you choose a script from the public domain, you can change anything (with a moral obligation to credit the playwright). You can change the ending, characters, lines, jokes, music, add or delete scenes, the whole plot. . . anything.