''Not Now, Darling'' is a 1967
farce
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written by English playwrights
John Chapman and
Ray Cooney
Raymond George Alfred Cooney Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director.
His biggest success, ''Run for Your Wife (play), Run for Your Wife'' (1983), ran for nine years in London's West E ...
, first staged at the
Richmond Theatre, in
Richmond
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, England prior to a long
West End run. The production starred
Donald Sinden and
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Joseph Cribbins (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned over eight decades.
During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful novelty records " The Hole in the Ground" ...
, with
Jill Melford,
Mary Kenton,
Brian Wilde,
Carmel McSharry and
Ann Sidney.
It was adapted as a film in 1973; later in the decade, it made the rounds of US dinner theatres under the title "Make Mine Mink" (no relation to the 1960 film
of the same name).
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1967 plays
Broadway plays
Comedy plays
Plays by Ray Cooney
Plays by John Chapman
West End plays
Collaborative plays
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