I cannot remember the title of this play, broadcast on TV, nor exactly
who was in it. Perhaps someone can recognise it from a brief synopsis.
As play opens two men, clearly the worse for drink, are heard arriving
home. The wives are unimpressed by their lateness.
But a short while later, a further two men, also the worse for drink are heard arriving home, and appear.
It's then apparent that they are duplicates of the first two. After a
bit of discussion, it is realised that one of the two pairs had played
with a matter duplicating machine that their employer is working on.
Thereafter the two pairs plot against each other, determined to be the
last standing. However, it is eventually remembered that things created
by the machine have a limited existence.
In due course, the members of one of the pair become briefly
transparent, though still alive, before vanishing completely.
The remaining pair are thus content, until one of them says to the other
"I can see right through you", which he meant literally. Thereafter both
he and the other disappear.
The wives are left despondent.
Then we can hear two men, clearly the worse for drink, arriving home.
Curtain.
So, does anyone remember this, what it was called, and/or who was in it?
Sylvia.
On 28/06/2022 5:01 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
I cannot remember the title of this play, broadcast on TV, nor exactly
who was in it. Perhaps someone can recognise it from a brief synopsis.
As play opens two men, clearly the worse for drink, are heard arriving
home. The wives are unimpressed by their lateness.
But a short while later, a further two men, also the worse for drink
are heard arriving home, and appear.
It's then apparent that they are duplicates of the first two. After a
bit of discussion, it is realised that one of the two pairs had played
with a matter duplicating machine that their employer is working on.
Thereafter the two pairs plot against each other, determined to be the
last standing. However, it is eventually remembered that things
created by the machine have a limited existence.
In due course, the members of one of the pair become briefly
transparent, though still alive, before vanishing completely.
The remaining pair are thus content, until one of them says to the
other "I can see right through you", which he meant literally.
Thereafter both he and the other disappear.
The wives are left despondent.
Then we can hear two men, clearly the worse for drink, arriving home.
Curtain.
So, does anyone remember this, what it was called, and/or who was in it?
Sylvia.
**I am unfamiliar with the play, but I would suggest that it sounds like
a Twilight episode. How old do you think the show was?
The wives were despondent losing drunken husbands?
Sounds very unrealistic to me. Pure fantasy.
On 28-June-22 7:40 pm, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 28/06/2022 5:01 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
I cannot remember the title of this play, broadcast on TV, nor
exactly who was in it. Perhaps someone can recognise it from a brief
synopsis.
As play opens two men, clearly the worse for drink, are heard
arriving home. The wives are unimpressed by their lateness.
But a short while later, a further two men, also the worse for drink
are heard arriving home, and appear.
It's then apparent that they are duplicates of the first two. After a
bit of discussion, it is realised that one of the two pairs had
played with a matter duplicating machine that their employer is
working on.
Thereafter the two pairs plot against each other, determined to be
the last standing. However, it is eventually remembered that things
created by the machine have a limited existence.
In due course, the members of one of the pair become briefly
transparent, though still alive, before vanishing completely.
The remaining pair are thus content, until one of them says to the
other "I can see right through you", which he meant literally.
Thereafter both he and the other disappear.
The wives are left despondent.
Then we can hear two men, clearly the worse for drink, arriving home.
Curtain.
So, does anyone remember this, what it was called, and/or who was in it? >>>
Sylvia.
**I am unfamiliar with the play, but I would suggest that it sounds
like a Twilight episode. How old do you think the show was?
The wives were despondent losing drunken husbands?
Sounds very unrealistic to me. Pure fantasy.
I don't think the intent was that the husbands were perpetually drunk,
just after an office party.
It was definitely a UK production. Probably 1980s.
Sylvia.
I cannot remember the title of this play, broadcast on TV, nor exactly
who was in it. Perhaps someone can recognise it from a brief synopsis.
As play opens two men, clearly the worse for drink, are heard arriving
home. The wives are unimpressed by their lateness.
But a short while later, a further two men, also the worse for drink are heard arriving home, and appear.
It's then apparent that they are duplicates of the first two. After a
bit of discussion, it is realised that one of the two pairs had played
with a matter duplicating machine that their employer is working on.
Thereafter the two pairs plot against each other, determined to be the
last standing. However, it is eventually remembered that things created
by the machine have a limited existence.
In due course, the members of one of the pair become briefly
transparent, though still alive, before vanishing completely.
The remaining pair are thus content, until one of them says to the other
"I can see right through you", which he meant literally. Thereafter both
he and the other disappear.
The wives are left despondent.
Then we can hear two men, clearly the worse for drink, arriving home.
Curtain.
So, does anyone remember this, what it was called, and/or who was in it?
Sylvia.
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