The Jollies | |
Characters: | Polly Billy Jilly Mr. Magico Rambo |
Setting: | Billy Jollie's seventh birthday |
Premiere: | 3 December 2002 |
Place: | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough |
Orig Lang: | English |
Subject: | Magic |
Genre: | Children's |
Web: | http://thejollies.alanayckbourn.net/ |
Chronology: | Ayckbourn |
Last Play: | Snake in the Grass 2002 |
Next Play: | Sugar Daddies 2003 |
The Jollies is a 2002 children's play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is about a young girl, Polly Jollie, where a magic trick gone awry at her brother's birthday party causes her brother, Billy, to age 25 years, and her mother, Jilly, to become 25 years younger. The play is viewed by some as the inspiration for his 2006 adult play If I Were You.