Cast

Synopsis

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Directors Notes

Alan Ayckbourn the Author of the play we are presenting this week, says he wrote it originally as a result of a phone call from the late Stephen Joseph, a truly remarkable man of the Theatre, without whose unrelenting deadlines this play would never have been written, and to whom he dedicated it. He asked simply for a play which would make people laugh when their seaside holidays were spoiled by the rain and they came into the Theatre to get dry before trudging back to their “Landladies.” This seemed as wörthwhile a reason for writing a play as any, so he tried to comply, and hoped he had succeeded.

I only hope that we who are presenting his play this week can be as successful as the Author was in writing it. I personally think it is one of the best comedies I have read for a long while and hope sincerely that you will enjoy it as much as we have done rehearsing it, if so, that will indeed be our reward.