Bob's Your Auntie: A Farce [Paperback]

Thomas Amo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 12, 2000

Traditional British farce which centers around Robert Marshall, a man who's life unravels on the morning of the funeral of his auntie Roberta, when he learns she's won the lottery. In order to collect the money, he must pretend to be his aunt. He tries to pull it off with the help of his girlfriend and his best friend, but to be successful they must dodge the taxman, the lottery official, the police, a jealous boyfriend, and the news media, as well as an overly helpful vicar."Bob's Your Auntie is deliciously politically incorrect....Amo shows flashes of brilliance in his writing."Dianne Runion, The Record

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About the Author

Thomas Amo is a theatrical producer and playwright with over twenty years stage experience. Forty of his productions have been comedies. He has himself performed in such shows as Run For Your Wife, Laughter on 23rd Floor, Noises Off, and Burgled Again. Amo is also the owner of Smiler's Comedy Playhouse in Northern California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (May 12, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595096247
• ISBN-13: 978-0595096244
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,818,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas Amo is the author of the 1920's adventure romance, "Silence" and the stage-play of the crazy British farce, "Bob's Your Auntie!" This former full-time theatrical producer and playwright has written over 20 comedies and farces for the live theatre. Outside acting, directing and producing, his first love has always been writing.
An Apple For Zoë ~Book One ~ The Forsaken, marks his debut into paranormal fiction.

"I've always had a fascination on the subjects of Old Hollywood and True Crime. The best part of writing about these subjects is the interesting places you get to see when doing the research. Spending three hours in The Hollywood Forever Cemetery was an amazing experience!"

"The other thing I absolutely love about being a writer is...you can do this job, from anywhere in the world!"

Thomas Amo lives in California, with his wife, Ashton.


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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Auntie is 100% pure fun!, February 22, 2003

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Tara King (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob's Your Auntie: A Farce (Paperback)

Unlike the other individual who only read this play,and thought it was unplausable...I on the other hand got to see this show, and also have a copy of this play. While it may appear on printed page to be hard to swallow...onstage it was amazing to watch!!! I have not laughed so hard and so long as I did at this production. The show is totally a laugh riot from beginning to end. I have never been in a theatre and heard such hard laughter.
I think the other reviewer misses the point when it comes to understanding the defination of farce. Which I have taken the liberty to write out Webster's Dictionary description. Farce: Laughable, comic, caricature, ridiculous, absurd, outrageous, perposterous. I think that says it all. In farce you already know the situation is unbelievable. Take Ray Cooney's smash London hit, Run For Your Wife. Any person with half a brain would figure out that the plot of that show would not hold up in the real world. But who cares, that's what laughter is all about. I would recommend this play to anyone who wants to just laugh and enjoy themselves. I admit, reading the play and watching live were two completely different experiences...but one thing is for sure, once this show got going it was a great ride right to the end.
And I've seen "Black Comedy" it's nothing to shout about!

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Funny but the implausibility is a big distraction, August 22, 2002

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Troy asdflkj (Amherst, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob's Your Auntie: A Farce (Paperback)

I love farce as much as the next guy. It was the only reason why I bought this book. And while I recognize that the very nature of farce (and most drama for that matter) requires alot of coincidental and odd things to happen that would most definitely not happen in every day life.

HOWEVER... This play pushes the envelope of believability to an extreme that I had to take a break from reading, my intelligence was so insulted. I loved the premise: a man comes back from his aunt's funeral only to discover she's won the lottery. I would have been ok with him dressing up as a woman... maybe even one other person pretending to be the aunt who got confused. But to have at least two characters in the play being dressed up in old ladies clothes and then having one of them delusionally think HE'S an old lady? It was just a little stupid.

The outragous plot however distracted from an otherwise pretty good script. From word one the dialogue is pretty consistently funny and there are some great moments. But the bulk of act two is simply too proposterous to be swallowed.

For those looking for a good farce I recommend Black Comedy written by Peter Schaffer.