Run For Your Wife
By Ray Cooney
By arrangement with Dominie Pty Ltd
Season October-November 1995
Venue Belconnen Theatre
TheStory
John Smith has the perfect life. John is a British cab driver who has two wives, Mary in Wimbledon and Barbara in Streatham. Through carefully orchestrated antics, John has insured that the women won't know the other exists!
But John's time-management love life hits a snag when he's injured and both wives report him missing. This sets up a slapstick chain of events as John and his neighbour Stanley try to keep the wives and two nosy police detectives from discovering the truth. Of course, all the lies the pair manage to concoct (including one about them being gay) only confuses everyone more!
There are about six or seven stories which must be woven by John and Stanley to outwit the cops and John's two wives. Keeping up with the high-paced hi-jinks may leave you a little breathless. John, is easily likable. As a matter of fact, he's so nice that you wonder how he could be a bigamist-it seems out of character. Stanley is genuinely funny and steals more than a couple of scenes. The interplay between him and Adams is the best working relationship ship in the storyline.
Mary is the wife who (mistakenly) finds out her husband is gay. In one scene, she forcefully slaps at Stanley with a newspaper for getting on her nerves. You almost feel like you're watching a re-enactment of Mommy Dearest. Second wife Barbara spends too much time locked in closets while John attempts to keep her from running into Mary.
ProductionTeam
| Director | Roy Scamp |
| Production Manager | Debra McNeill |
| Stage Manager | Michael Kent |
| Set Design | James Stone and Roy Scamp |
| Costume Design | Margaret Staines |
| Lighting and Sound Design | Chris Neil |
Cast
| Mary Smith | Annabelle Mooney |
| Barbara Smith | Merrily Powell |
| John Smith | David Adams |
| Stanley Gardner | Peter Benisch |
| Det. Sgt. Troughton | Donald White |
| Bobby Franklin | John Jenkins |
| Det. Sgt. Porterhouse | Ian Davenport |
| Reporter | Berin Denham |