Birthday Suite

Synopsis

Geoff Tippett has arranged a special birthday treat for his old stick-at-home friend Bob. The treat is a hotel room for the night. Complete with champagne. A double bed which folds up into the wall! Don’t ask! Because also present is a very attractive girl called Mimi. Shy Kate has also booked into the hotel after arranging a computer agency date with over-amorous Dick. Things start to go awry when the temperamental Italian room-waiter, Tony, shows the wrong people to the wrong rooms. Bob mistakes Kate for Mimi. And Dick ends up with Bob’s wife, Liz. Chaos and confusion reign as the foursome try to sort themselves out. Not at all helped by the highly excitable Tony. An evening of delicious and uproarious fun for all!

Our Review:

Jennifer Louise Acton - 23 August 2012

Two mirror-like ajoining hotel rooms, complete with connecting door, provide the backdrop for Robin Hawdon’s farce. The stage is certainly set for an evening of comic misdirection and mayhem. The calmness of the hotel-suite set is shattered by a Fawlty Towers-esque couple in the form of Richard Earl, playing the long-suffering Italian waiter-come-bellboy Tony, and Jamie Chapman, in the role of the bumbling Bob. These two, bursting into the left-hand suite, could not be a more mis-matched duo; Earl’s Tony is brash and overbearing, while Chapman’s Bob is still standing in the doorway clutching at his overnight bag like a lifebuoy.

Bob, we learn, has come to the hotel for an illicit night with the glamorous Mimi, whose services have apparently been purchased for him by a well-meaning friend as a birthday present. As Bob is left alone to straighten his argyle sweater and stand nervously berating himself in the mirror, ‘Oh Gawd!’, we can see th...

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