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MONDAY 24TH - SATURDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2008
Eves: 7.30pm, Wed/Sat Mat: 2.30pm
Tickets: £16.50, £12.50 & £10.50
Concessions: £3 off top-two prices (Mon - Thurs only)
Starring Melvyn Hayes, Mark Wingett, Paul Henry & Barry Howard
Ian Dickens Productions are proud to present 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 known 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!
RUN FOR YOUR WIFE is perhaps the world’s most famous modern farce and is directed by IAN DICKENS whose production and company will deliver an evening of riotous entertainment for all.
“A frolic? It is much more than that, it is a triumph. The brilliance of the structure, the imaginative joy, the scope for comic acting… put this entertainment at the top of the hardest of all theatrical trees to climb- that of farce” Daily Telegraph
“Treasure the moments of pure farce” The Times
“You will also laugh a great deal and marvel at the sheer expertise of its construction” Sunday Express
“… a perfect example of British farce” Daily Mail
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