Caught in the Net (Run for your Wife Again)

Synopsis

A sequel to Run for your Wife. Run for your Wife Again continues the tale of John Smith. John is a taxi driver happily, but bigamously, married to two unsuspecting wives. He has a sixteen-year old son, Gavin, by Barbara in Streatham, and a fifteen-year old daughter, Vicki, by Mary in Wimbledon. One day Gavin and Vicki happen to meet surfing the internet and are amazed at the coincidences concerning their respective fathers: both are called John Smith; both are aged 43; and, surprise, surprise, both are taxi drivers.Vicki can t understand her Dad s vehement reaction when she tells him, firstly, of the amazing coincidence and, secondly, that she s invited Gavin round to meet him and Mum, John spends the next two hours attempting to stop the inevitable.

Our Review:

31 August 2001

Let's do the Timewarp again:

It's astounding,
Time is fleeting,
The West End is out of control.
But listen closely -
Not for very much longer,

Ray Cooney's
Back in town.

We remember
When the West End was safe:
Laughing
Out loud in those moments when
The farce would go out of control.

But here's Bill Kenwright calling -
Let's do the Timewarp again.

It's just a slam of the doors,
And then a pratfall on the stairs.
With one wife in Streatham,
You have another in Wimbledon,
But it's the kids from each
Who really drive you insane,

Let's do the Timewarp again.

With apologies to Richard O'Brien and The Rocky Horror Show, the above summarizes the plot of Ray Cooney's latest West End farce, Caught in the Net, which sends us spiralling back into the chaos of the life of a bigamous taxi driver, John Smith, whom we first me...

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Jordi PiquƩ i Sagrera - 14 May 2011:

Seria posible conseguir una copia del video o DVD de la obra. Soy de una compaƱia de teatro de aficionados y nos gustaria hacer esta obra de Ray Cooney. Les agradeceria respuesta piquejordi@msn.com...

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