Hell and Highwater
Publisher: New Playwrights' Network
Published: April 1986
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780863190674
First sentence: Lord Charles:  This soup is cold.
Description: It's dinner at Summerville House.  No Summerville has ever missed dinner in seventeen generations, and Lord Charles is determined that a simple burst water-pipe will not prevail now. As the water-level rises, the family remain stoic, except for a visiting lounge-lizard. As panic rises, the day is saved by Beacham, the indomitable butler.
Notes: A One-Act Farce/Comedy.  The cast go through the actions of swimming, near-drowning etc, in an almost Wodehouse-ian tale of English upper-class stiff-upper-lip-ness at its best.