Barking in Essex

by Exton, Clive

• ISBN13: 9781472524553
• ISBN10: 1472524551
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Summary

Freedom finally beckons for Algie Packer, Essex's most notorious gangster. He's done seven years inside and now he's coming home to collect his reward – £3,672,000 in untraceable notes.

But there's something Algie's family have forgotten to mention . . .

The Packers are Essex's lovable, but most dysfunctional family. Witness their desperate attempts to cover their tracks before Algie arrives to collect what is rightfully his.

Barking In Essex is a riotously funny comedy by Clive Exton, published and produced for the first time in 2013.

Author Biography

Clive Exton was a London-born screenwriter and playwright. His writing credits include the highly-acclaimed film 10 Rillington Place, as well as Poirot and Jeeves and Wooster. Exton wrote the new book for the PG Wodehouse original for a musical based on Damsels in Distress, as well as a new stage comedy Twixt, which premiered in Paris in 1996 and played in Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Milan, Rome, Naples and Florence. He also adapted Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy for a production at the Duke of York Theatre. Productions of his own plays, Neddy and Bumps and Barking In Essex, were being planned at the time of his death in 2007.