The Play's the Thing (play)
Play adapted by P. G. Wodehouse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Play's the Thing is a comedic play adapted by P. G. Wodehouse from the 1924 Hungarian play Játék a Kastélyban (Play at the Castle) by Ferenc Molnár.[1] It premiered in 1926 in New York.[2]
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Date premiered | November 3, 1926 (1926-11-03) |
Place premiered | Henry Miller's Theatre |
Genre | Comedy |
Setting | An Italian castle in summer |
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In the play, a playwright named Sandor Turai comes up with a plan to save the engagement between his nephew Albert and an actress named Ilona after Albert overhears a flirtatious conversation between Ilona and an obnoxious actor.
The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2.
Molnár's play was also adapted into an English-language play by Tom Stoppard, under the title Rough Crossing (1984).