“PURR…POWER”, Theatre Arts & The New Country Wife

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According to work by scientists reported on ITN today, cats control people through their purr, particularly where their food is concerned.  However, this also applies to their creative projects and Rocco (the Cat) has reminded me of a couple of things I need to do. Incidentally, he looks very like the handsome cat in the above photograph.

Firstly, he has asked me to report calls from actors union, Equity, for cats to return to the London theatres in their traditional role as catchers of mice and rats, as headlined in this week’s edition of The Stage.

Secondly, Rocco has suggested that I consider developing a play (possibly for theatre, but perhaps for radio in the first instance) based on the synopsis of a drama I wrote last year at our other Janet Rocco Blog, with the working title of “The Right Hon Lord Shag of Solihull”, about a gentleman with a fortune originally made in the carpet business.

With regard to the latter project, I’m now minded to call this drama “The New Country Wife”, after the 17th century Restoration Comedy “The Country Wife”*, and, yes, it will of course deal with the subjects of Sex, Politics and Money in the later Noughties, or as it’s heroine, Samantha Shag calls them : the Naughties.

Rocco will be acting as agent for this venture, so  if any one would like to sponsor our New Restoration comedy, please could they email janet.rocco@tiscali.co.uk  Many Thanks !

Background to The New Country Wife and a Preview can be found @ http://janetrocco.blogspot.com  

More information about Restoration Comedy and The Country Wife @

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Wife