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Don't Dress for Dinner

Saturday 3 7.30pmFebruary
2018

Theatre

Apollo Theatre

Pyle Street
Newport
PO30 1JT

01983 527267

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Don't Dress for Dinner

Source http://www.apollo-theatre.org.uk/dont-dress-for-dinner/

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Marc Camoletti’s comedy Don’t Dress For Dinner has all the earmarks of classic French farce: marital infidelity, misunderstandings and mistaken identities.

This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where it ran for six years at the Apollo and Duchess Theatres. It has since played in theatres all over the USA and the English speaking world and was revived in Chicago and on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre in 2012.

Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along too to provide the alibi. It’s foolproof; what could possibly go wrong? Well … suppose Robert turns up not realising quite why he has been invited. Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determined that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend. Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook. Suppose everyone’s alibi gets confused with everyone else’s. An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed.