Playwright Dave Freeman has a glittering past, scriptwriting for Benny Hill, Terry Scott and June Whitfield, Palladium pantomimes and Royal Variety Performances.
With the footsteps of such ‘titterati’ luminaries to follow, director Heather Whitham should be congratulated on her excellent casting.
The story: two couples, enthusiastically played by Mat Robinson and Becky Mills (The Parkers) and Nick Longland and Julie Edwards (The Philbys), arrive in a run-down hotel on the French/German border to find they are double-booked into one large bedroom.
Cue the unexpected appearance of exotic mistress Simone (Fiona Mackay), stir-in the manic interventions of stressed hotel manager Heinz (Leighton Fort) and porter Karak (Matthew Ellison) and you have all the ingredients of classic English farce, in the Brian Rix and Alan Ayckbourn tradition.
The set was well-constructed and lit, the effects worked on-cue and the costumes were well selected, as well as modelled, to display some very questionable habits!
Alan Johns
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