Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt by Thomas Brandon is an energetic fast moving farce in three acts The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate student at Oxford University whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to dress up and impersonate the latter's aunt in order that they can woo their girlfriends who they can’t see alone without an official chaperone . The complications of the plot include the arrival of the real aunt and the attempts of an elderly fortune hunter to woo the bogus aunt. The play concludes with three pairs of young lovers united, along with an older pair – Charley's real aunt and Jack's widowed father.