Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert

Adapted from Double Jeu by Robert Thomas

Full Length Comedy

Characters: 5 male 2 female

Interior Set

Monique is married to a gambling wastrel. When she refuses to pay his debts he leaves for France to raise money from an estate. Meanwhile his brother is released from prison and turns up to see his fiancee Monique's maid. They scheme to have brother impersonate wastrel so that Monique can get a divorce but the wastrel returns at the very hour the lawyer is due. Monique tries to drug her husband but imbibes the potion herself. Fighting for a gun the wastrel is killed. When Monique comes to and the police appear they think she is loco: there is no body the maid is now a nurse and the lawyer a psychiatrist. Is Monique insane and will they do her in to get her money? No Monique is really a secret agent sent to trap the wastrel in his fifth widowhood. This time the law catches wastrel lawyer and maid combined.