Woodcock's Little Game: A Comedy-Farce, in Two Acts

The morning after his wedding, Mr. Woodcock wakes to find his new domestic bliss already crumbling. His mother-in-law has opinions. His old friends have arrived with inconvenient memories. And his carefully constructed reputation as a respectable husband is about to collide with the truth about his wild past. What follows is a perfectly calibrated farce of missed messages, mistaken identities, and well-meaning conspiracies gone spectacularly awry. The friends who promised to protect his secrets can't stop talking. The relatives who should be kept in the dark keep turning up at the worst possible moments. And Woodcock himself spends most of the play scrambling to maintain appearances while everything threatens to fall apart. It's compact, frantic, and gleefully unrepentant in its comic chaos - a two-act sprint through the ridiculous theater of Victorian domestic life.