Bedroom Farce At The Hawk’s Well

Next week from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th November the Sligo Drama Circle presents Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious comedy “Bedroom Farce”. Ayckbourn is the most successful and prolific English playwright since Noel Coward, having a phenomenal string of box-office hits to his credit. Earlier this season, Sligo Drama Circle presented Ayckbourn’s “How the Other Half Loves” and this production promises to be as frenetically funny as the last.

“Bedroom Farce” is a play for four couples. Ernest and Delia go out to to a dinner to celebrate their wedding anniversary. When this is a failure they return home and prepare to celebrate with pilchards on toast in bed. Malcolm and Hate are preparing a house warming party. Nick and Jan have been invited to this but Nick has hurt his back and prepared to rest quietly in bed. All three preparations are doomed to disaster by the marital problems of Trevor (son of Ernest and Delia) and his wife Susannah who descend on each couple in turn leaving chaos in their wake. the bedrooms are presented simultaneously on stage and the action flows in and out from one to another during this hectic night.

The cast includes five from the previous Ayckbourn play, Seán Mc Bride, Moira Doonan, Mary Flynn, Tony Mc Niffe and Kevin Boyle. The other characters are played by three newcomers to Sligo Drama Circle: Brenda Boyle, Mary Mc Donnell, and Eoin Clerkin. The play is produced by Irene Fleming. The big question is, of course, who will next get into Jan’s bed. Somebody will. It could be you! Find out in the Hawk’s Well, Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th November.

from The Sligo Champion, November 12th, 1982