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Sunday, 28 July 2002 |
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Local theatre fans starved for a hearty side-splitter can look ahead to a rollicking evening out when the riotous farce, "Run for Your Wife", a comedy by the British playwright Ray Cooney, steals the Boards of Lionel Wendt from August 15. This fine-tuned production by the PAC (Performing Arts Company), promising more polish, slick and fun (if indeed that is possible!) than when presented eight years ago, is once again principally funded by the Commercial Bank. The story is very simple - but made incredibly complicated by a roller-coaster blend of "little white lies", suspicions, deception and curiosity. The pivot of "Run for Your Wife", John Smith, is a London cabbie and owns his taxie and the knife-edged schedule he runs to stick to. John, married to Mary, lives in Wimbeldon. John, married to Barbara, lives 4 1/2 minutes away, in Steatham. As long as each "other half" is blissfully unaware of the "extra half", life is a lark for John. But, come the day when John goes gallant in a mugging incident and suffers a mild concussion which rips the seams off his tongue and the cat steals out of the bag. John, the brave combatant, very reluctantly helped by friend Stanley, braves the extricacies brought on by two well-meaning but prying policemen, the press, the increasingly irascible wives and an extremely gay neighbour. But, as inevitable, one lie leads to another and in the disastrous crash to the final countdown, neither John nor Stanley can make out which is true and which is wild concoction. If you harbour a secret whim for a second spouse, don't act on it until you see "Run for Your Wife!"
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