September Play Season: Run For Your Wife

Tuesday 16th - Saturday 20th September 2008

The 25th anniversary national tour of Ray Cooney’s hilarious farce RUN FOR YOUR WIFE with an all-star cast including MELVYN HAYES (Bombadier ‘Gloria’ Beaumont in IT AIN’T HALF HOT MUM); MARK WINGETT,one of the UK’s most recognisable faces from his roles in QUADROPHENIA and BREAKING GLASS right up to his 21 years as PC Carver in THE BILL; PAUL HENRY (best kown for his role of Benny in the soap opera CROSSROADS; BARRY HOWARD (Barry Stuart-Hargreaves, the champion ballroom dancer in BBC TV's hugely popular series HI-DE-HI!); MICHELLE MORRIS (THE KNOCK) and long-standing Ian Dickens’ company favourite DAVID CALLISTER.

John Smith is a London cabbie with his own taxi, a wife in Streatham, a wife in Wimbledon- and a knife-edge schedule! By strict adherence to this schedule, he has been a successful, if tired, bigamist for three years, but it all comes undone when he tries to rescue an elderly lady from the clutches of three muggers and winds up getting clobbered for his trouble. The incident and ensuing treatment at a local hospital throw John’s meticulously crafted schedule off kilter, with increasingly devastating results.

John’s dilemma is not helped much when his upstairs lodger, Stanley Gardner tries to help but only succeeds in making matters worse. Add to this two police detectives, two very different wives and a very camp dress-maker and watch the fireworks fly!

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