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Caught in the Net: Laughter as dad lands in tangled web
Southgate Methodist Social and Drama Group Southgate Christian Centre, Elland
ON paper, the theme of Southgate Methodists' offering about a bigamist deceiving two families for nearly 20 years seems at odds with church views on the sanctity of marriage.
But given that this is a comedy from the pen of Ray Cooney, the sequel to West End farce Run For Your Wife provided plenty of laugh-aloud moments for the first-night audience. Two-timing taxi driver John Smith (Andrew Kershaw) has volatile wife Mary in Wimbledon (played by Katherine Walker) and voluptuous bride Barbara in Streatham (Anne Pickles).
But it seems his well-kept secret is about to be rumbled, thanks to new technology as his teenage daughter Mary (Vicki, played by Katherine's real-life daughter Victoria Walker) and his son by Barbara (Gavin, played by Chris Walker, no relation to Katherine and Victoria) link up via the internet.
When the teenagers plan to meet, amazed that they both have a 43-year-old taxi-driving dad called John Leonard Smith, he enlists his lodger in Wimbledon (Graham Alsancak) to keep them apart – leading to increasingly implausible explanations and actions.
And just when it looks like lodger Stanley's frantic antics will steal the show, up pops his doddery dad (Philip Wilkinson) to crank up the laughter-lines.
Of course, nothing is what is seems and a twist in the tale means deceitful John discovers a couple of well-hidden surprises, courtesy of his long-suffering ladies.
The production ends tonight (7.15pm).
Pauline Hawkins
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