Hotel Bona Vista
Carole Tricker
Genre: Comedy
Cast size: 12
Duration: Two Act
Carole Tricker | Comedy | Full-length | 3m, 9f
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This is the sequel to 'Open House' but works well on its own. The end of 'Open House' saw the engagement of David McDowell and Sharon Douglas. Hotel Bona Vista shows us their eventful honeymoon in Spain.
This is a breezy comedy set in the 1980s with plenty of roles for women. David and Sharon from St Andrews in Scotland go to the Bona Vista Hotel in Spain for their honeymoon. Carlos Mendrez runs the hotel with assistance from his girlfriends, Fiona and Diana. The two women do different shifts and rarely meet. He keeps them both happy by promising to marry them when the hotel extension is complete – it never will be! Due to circumstances beyond their control David’s mother Edith and his Gran end up at the same hotel and spend a lot of their time trying to avoid the happy couple.
When Carlos sees Edith and Gran he is devastated because he is in fact Edith's husband who disappeared 25 years before in Spain while working as a long-distance lorry driver. His real name is Charlie Menzies McDowell. So, he spends all his time avoiding Edith and Gran while trying to appear normal to Diane and Fiona. In trying to do this he proposes to them both. All is revealed in the final act, Gran having recognised him earlier.
It ends with Carlos losing his girlfriends but gaining a family!
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