Bedroom Farce

Photo: Phil Stewart

Review by Russell Cook from Suffolk Village Info.

Three bedrooms set next to each other on stage, with four couples all interlinked by their often troubled, tangled and intimate connections to each other.

It all adds up to a wonderful and hilarious outcome for the eight of them, as their lives become focused on the marital mayhem surrounding the troubled pair of Trevor and Suzannah. Their marriage has hit the rocks and they are trying to manoeuvre through their ups and downs, mishaps and misunderstandings.

Susannah keeps telling herself that she’s a confident woman, while Trevor has his head in the clouds still unsure how to make the marriage a success and so looks for help from former partner, Jan, and her bedridden, back-suffering husband, Nick.

Middle-aged Ernest and Delia - Susannah’s mother and father - are hilariously trying to celebrate their wedding anniversary in peace, while newly-weds Malcolm and Kate are hosting a house warming party, having invited Jan and Nick along with Susannah and Trevor.

Confused?

Well ‘Bedroom Farce’ at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich will keep you amused and apace of all the action.

Photo: Phil Stewart

Alan Ayckbourn’s play, written back in the 1980s, goes back to traditional comedy a bit; it's a comedy though it's called a farce, and it's a study of the British in bed - with everything except sex!

It’s hilariously amusing with the cast members’ dialogue brilliantly performed.

Ernest (George Telfer) and Delia (Corrinne Wicks) are the perfect middle-class couple, who go out for the night to mark their special day only to end up with troubled Susannah in their bed.

Nick (Ricky Oakley) is constantly in his own bed trying to overcome his back problems with mind-bending manoeuvres to ease the pain, and with little sympathy from Jan (Georgia Burnell), while Malcolm (Simon Pothecary) and Kate (Lucy-Jane Quinlan) try to come to terms with their failed party.

Add into the mix Trevor (Pete Ashmore) and Susannah (Louise Beresford) with their neurotic and wonderfully emotional entanglement, and it all adds up to charm, chaos and lots of physical comedy - backed up by Ayckbourn’s trademark, razor-sharp dialogue.

‘Bedroom Farce’ is a side-splitting masterpiece that will leave you laughing long after the curtain falls.

Bedroom Farce is at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 6 September.

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