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Don't Dress For Dinner

by

Marc Camoletti
adapted by Robin Hawden

23rd - 30th September 2000
 
Director: Derek Slater
  
Marc Camoletti's boulevard comedy for three men and three women was a smash-hit in Paris. This adaptation by Robin Hawdon was premièred in 1991 and has been a tremendous success in London's West End. Bernard is hoping to weekend in the country with his chic, Parisian mistress Suzy. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook, is in the process of packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother, and has invited along his best friend Robert as a suitable alibi. It's foolproof. What could possibly go wrong? Well ... Hilarious confusion piles upon hilarious confusion as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed!
 
Bernard Bill Platt
Jacqueline, his wife Carmel Waller
Robert Geoff Bird
Suzette, the cook Janet Slade
Suzanne, Bernard's mistress Chris Hall
George, Suzette's husband Tom Thistleton
 
Stage Manager Duncan Walker
Wardrobe Jayne Taylor
Joan Heineckey
Edwige Marsland
Properties Hilda Knight
Joyce Sykes
Continuity Margaret WIlliams
Lighting Val Donlan
Sound John Rowlands
Staging Cyril Hines
Peter Valentine
Doreen Brady
Gordon Butler
Reg Sykes
Derek Frith
Scenic Artist Shirley Murray
Programme Cover Derek Frith