A Bedfull of Foreigners

Synopsis

Stanley and Brenda are on a motoring trip through France, and find themselves in a lovely village on the eve of its Festival - how lucky they are to find a spare hotel room - or so they at first think! Within an hour, Stanley finds himself lowering a naked girl from the hotel window. Then the naked girl's husband arrives, finding everybody in the wrong beds! As confusion turns to chaos, Stanley and Brenda find they are sharing their room with the most outrageous people imaginable, as guests dressed as nuns and monks rush in and out, and seductions and confrontations run rampant!

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 11 July 2012

The fun is fast and furious, as it should be for a classic British farce from the early 1970s, set in those heady days of the mid-1960s when currency restrictions were tentatively lifted and people took European holidays for the first time since the 1930s. For many it was the first taste of “abroad”. Brenda and Stanley are one such couple.

They, in Dave Freeman’s A Bedfull of Foreigners, have arrived after a series of mishaps at a country hotel on the French-West German border. It’s run by Heinz and has seen better days – not to mention more efficient staff than concierge-cum-handyman Karak. Another guest is Helga, married to Claude (who says he’s a diplomat, but isn’t, and is there to meet with his bit-on-the-side Simone – a cabaret artiste with attitude).

Offstage we have a village celebration and a visiting Bulgarian women’s cycling team. Quite a lot to cram onto a pocket handkerchief-sized stage with the...

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