See You Next Tuesday

Synopsis

An adaptation of the Francis Veber play Le Diner de Cons. The urbane Pierre has it all: money from his job as a successful publisher, a beautiful wife, an adoring mistress and numerous friends. He also has an unusual pastime; every Tuesday he and his friends dine with a different 'fool'. It is this that brings Pierre into contact with the finest example of a fool he believes he has ever met: François, an accountant for the Inland Revenue, whose only passion in life stems from matchstick models. When the paths of these two unlikely dinner companions cross, the result is unexpected and hilarious.

Our Review:

3 October 2003

If you acronym-ise the title of this play, it's not SUNT as you might at first imagine. Following streetwise parlance, it's shorthand (in fact, longhand) for a much cruder and more derogatory term indeed. And that titular tee-hee neatly sums up what's on offer here: a nod-nod-wink-wink, briefly clever, briefly funny, slightly shocking one-joke wonder of an evening.

Publisher Pierre Brochant and his wealthy friends enjoy a cruel and unusual pastime. Every Tuesday, they host a dinner to which each must invite the most stupid person they can find. This week, Pierre thinks he's discovered the "world champion" idiot, unsuspecting accountant François Pignon. The play opens just before François arrives, for some pre-dinner party vetting, at Pierre's elegant cream-coloured Paris apartment where his elegant cream-clad wife is preparing to leave him.

Given the precedent set in the minds of London audiences by the import of a string of Yasmina Reza's careful constructions, you migh...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (195.92.194.13) - 18 January 2004:

I'll give it one star for actually making the West End and fooling people into spending their money just to see this poor imitation of a TV sit com....

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