Narrate how mrs. Bouncer befools her tenants.
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As the 40-minute comedy opens, Mrs Bouncer (played by Elaine Noon) is letting one room to two unsuspecting tenants, each one imagining he is the sole renter of the room. John Box (played by Graham Robertson) is a newspaper printer and works at night. James Cox (played by Jim Adamik) is a journeyman hatter and works by day. The canny and greedy Mrs Bouncer has for some time been nimbly keeping them from ever meeting (although they do pass one another on the stairs). For how long, the unfolding play asks, can her precarious hoax succeed? What will happen when, surely inevitably, these two manly men come face to face and contest the limited space of Mrs Bouncer's remunerative room?
John Maddison Morton's Box and Coxwas first staged in 1847 and as the one-act play being performed at Teatro Vivaldi (and sometimes as the dashing little opera Cox and Box, with exquisitely tuneful music by Arthur Sullivan), it was a staple entertainment of Victorian London. Cox and Box, with F.C. Burnand's very-faithful-to-the-play libretto, is still much performed by amateur and professional Gilbert and Sullivan societies everywhere.
John Maddison Morton's Box and Coxwas first staged in 1847 and as the one-act play being performed at Teatro Vivaldi (and sometimes as the dashing little opera Cox and Box, with exquisitely tuneful music by Arthur Sullivan), it was a staple entertainment of Victorian London. Cox and Box, with F.C. Burnand's very-faithful-to-the-play libretto, is still much performed by amateur and professional Gilbert and Sullivan societies everywhere.
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