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by Alan Bennett

Directed by Keith Thompson

Saturday 15th – Saturday 22nd March 1980 in the Auditorium

…like seeing an animated McGill postcard, in which the captions have been written by an elegant verbal stylist; farce it is, but with such witty and literate lines as never before. We meet a family and their friends for whom the determination to put bodily satisfaction before everything else leads them through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual encounters. As Dr Wicksteed observes, “He who lusts last, lasts longest”.

Festivals

• Hertford
  • Placed Second