"Hobson’s Choice"



General Admission $11 at the door



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A Lancashire Comedy

By Harold Brighouse

Directed by Jaynie Roberts

(who, coincidentally, was born in Lancashire)







Henry Horatio Hobson, widower and boot-shop proprietor, is much incensed at the ‘general increase of uppishness’ amongst his three daughters. The climax comes when he tells Maggie (the eldest and the ringleader) that she is past marrying age. Maggie promptly retaliates by marrying Hobson’s boot-hand, Will Mossup, and turns the retiring youth into a sturdy fellow whose new confidence makes him a real business rival to Hobson. Hobson disowns the entire family but finds that he cannot do without them. Bowing to the circumstances, Hobson has no choice but to accept Will as a partner in the new firm of “Mossup and Hobson.”