The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts

"The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts" by F. Anstey is a humorous play where a young architect named Horace Ventimore finds himself in a wildly chaotic situation after accidentally unleashing a jinni from an old brass bottle; as Horace strives to impress his fiancée's parents during a crucial dinner, the jinni's magic begins to create a series of laugh-out-loud problems, throwing Horace's plans and his life into comical disarray.

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English writer, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies in Punch magazine.