A brilliantly funny farce I'm performing in at the end of May
Bernard's wife Jacqueline is going away for the weekend to see her mother so Bernard invites his mistress Suzanne over to stay. He also invites his best friend Robert as an alibi so if anyone asks, he can say she's Robert's girlfriend.
However, when he tells his wife Robert is coming over, she cancels her plans and decides to stay. What Bernard doesn't know is that Robert is Jacqueline's lover.
Robert goes along with the plan to pretend to be Suzanne's lover because otherwise Bernard will find out. When the hired cook Suzette arrives before Suzanne and introduces herself as Suzy, Robert declares her to be his girlfriend, much to her surprise and Jacqueline's disgust, and events rapidly spiral out of control.
When Suzanne arrives, she has to be the cook, since Robert's "girlfriend" is already here. Lies pile upon lies and things get incredibly confusing, as per all the best farces.
The quality of some of these lines make it difficult to believe that it's been translated from French.
It's one of the funniest scripts I've read and we've got a really good cast (including me).
We perform the last week of May at Stepping Stones Nursery, Chorley Old Road, Bolton
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