a farce by by Ray Cooney
Production dates: 24th to 26th September 2026
Rotherfield Village Hall
.Director - Derek Holland
Richard Wiley, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the Op position’s typists. Things go disastrously wrong, beginning with the discovery of a “body” trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window. Desperately trying to get out of a sticky situation, Richard calls for his PPS, George Pigden who, through Richard’s lies, sinks further and further into trouble with everybody and ends up going through an identity crisis. Things go from bad to worse with the arrival of Ronnie, Jane’s distraught husband and with the addition of an unscrupulous waiter, Mrs Wiley and Nurse Foster, things really come to a head.
This is a well written and hilarious farce. It is hard to make me laugh out loud but this play still reduces me to helpless tears of laughter and I can’t wait to direct it
CAST:
Richard Wiley |
Adam Hardy |
Pamela Wiley |
Jes Lunn |
George Pigden |
Ian Blackmore |
The Waiter |
Robert Chesterton |
Jane Worthington |
Georgie Dolding |
The Manager |
Peter Emanuel |
A Body |
Gary Warner |
The Maid |
Clare Carruthers |
Ronnie Worthington |
William McIntyre |
Gladys |
Sarah Boorman |