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Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning comedy classic, with a glittering cast directed by Martin Jarvis. Written and set in 1975. Before mobile phones. Devastatingly funny - marriage, partnerships, differences.

Elderly Ernest and Delia in their bedroom. Worrying over son Trevor’s relationship with ‘complex’ wife Susannah. Fish on toast in bed is a comfort.
Nick and Jan’s bedroom. Jan was once ‘destroyer’ Trevor’s girlfriend.
Malcolm and Kate’s bedroom. Tonight it’s a cloakroom for their housewarming party. Trevor arrives. Then wife Susannah. Blazing row. Jan appears. Complications.
Nick and Jan’s. Back at home Jan tells jealous Nick she and Trevor had a mutual snog.

Ernest and Delia’s. Doorbell. It’s crazy daughter-in-law Susannah.
Nick and Jan’s. Trevor’s ringing their bell.
Kate and Malcolm’s. Awaiting Trevor’s return, to sleep over.

Anything but a typical bedroom farce - though we hear about a range of sexual troubles. Is marriage sustained more by habit than mutual excitement? Or is there a certain blessedness? Ayckbourn's play is moving, observant - and hugely funny.

Cast
Trevor ….. Stephen Mangan
Susannah ..… Susannah Fielding
Malcolm ..… George Blagden
Kate ..… Laura Pitt-Pulford
Jan ..… Lisa Dillon
Nick ..… Edward Bennett
Ernest ..… Martin Jarvis
Delia ..… Rosalind Ayres

Specially composed music: A-Mnemonic
Engineers: Charles Carroll, Marc McCouig, Tom Bullen

Directed by Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4