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birdsinthewindow
Since: Apr, 2019

British stage play, probably 1980s, about a highly-strung writer who keeps hiring housekeepers, only for all of them to be too strict, too lax or have some problem that interferes with his writing. The end of act one is him apparently finding a perfect housekeeper, and the start of act two is a police raid on the house, which she turned into a brothel while he was away.
And all the housekeepers are played by one actress, leading to complicated stage directions when one of them is, for some reason I forget, hiding from another one.