The pair are playing wild hookey from their own ground-down lives and for the 90-odd minutes of this joyous production – directed by the play's author, David Greig – it's as if we too have gone Awol from our quotidian cares.
It was a wonderful place, and in the middle of all the splendour was a little old gentleman with a very long black coat and a very long white beard and a hookey nose — like a falcon.
If a Gypsy plays hookey, it's in order to stay home.
Now a member of Skull and Bones, with several jobs in business houses waiting for him when he graduates, Stack himself has no misgivings about his decision to play hookey from an agricultural college.
Many of the American students expressed regret that schools should be open as usual, and some were moved by a patriotic impulse to "play hookey".
Incivility is a small price to pay, porn is a small price to pay, deluded suicide cults are a small price to pay, spam and hookey movies are a small price to pay - stringing barbed wire across the last wilderness on earth is too much.
Lounge on the grassy green slopes framing the idyllic three-acre pool, always crowded on a sunny day with high schoolers playing hookey, hippies from the city's heyday and everyone in between.
Let's finish with Ferris's masterclass on playing hookey, just in case anyone's still thinking about Flubber.
Within days he contrives to drive a car while uninsured, start a relationship with another woman without notifying anyone, go hookey from his job and break the terms of his curfew.
The 14-year-old played hookey from school to compete in the dance marathons of the Depression.
On one level, we are listening to a 16-year-old New England schoolgirl, Bernadette, tell the story of how she played hookey to go to Brooklyn and reveal to her boyfriend that she was pregnant.
