Domestic strife in Bedroom Farce
Husband and wife actors Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield head all-star cast.
Peter Hall's critically acclaimed production of Bedroom Farce, one of Alan Ayckbourn's best loved works, opens at Milton Keynes Theatre on Monday with a stunning new cast following its recent smash hit run in the West End.
The action famously focuses on four couples in three bedrooms, with two celebrations, one blazing row and an illicit kiss (or two)!
Ayckbourn's ingenious comedy shines an illuminating spotlight onto the trials and tribulations of suburban marriage.
The brilliance of the production is that almost every married man or woman in the audience will identify with at least one of the characters. Delia and Ernest are the quaint elderly couple whose idea of a good time between the sheets is eating sardines on toast.
Malcolm is reduced to impotent desperation attempting to assemble a flat-pack dressing table whilst his wife Kate dissects his lack of flair in the bedroom.
The cantankerous, careerists Nick and Jan seem more concerned with conferences than congress and the neurotic Trevor and Susannah wreak havoc as they sweep everyone up in the whirlwind of their dramatically dysfunctional relationship.
Bedroom Farce is one of those rare plays in which talent and humour achieve a blissfully happy marriage – which is about the only one on view.
A long standing partnership, Hall and Ayckbourn co-directed the London premiere of the play at the National Theatre in 1977. Such was its success that it transferred to the West End in 1978 and was staged on Broadway the following year.
The farce stars real life husband and wife team Juliet Mills and Max Caulfield.
Emmy Award-winning actress Juliet's prolific career includes Wild at Heart, Oh! What a Lovely War, The Elephant Man and Billy Wilder's Avanti! for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress.
Her handsome Hollywood husband Maxwell Caulfield has recently played smooth-talking millionaire Mark Wylde in Emmerdale but best known for his starring roles in Dynasty, The Colbys and Grease 2.
The cast also features renowned TV and theatre actor Bruce Montague whose credits include Leonard in Carla Lane's Butterflies, Keeping Up Appearances, Doctors, Oliver at the London Palladium and Phantom of the Opera.
Bedroom Farce runs until Saturday.
For tickets call the box office 0844 871 7652 or go online www.ambassadorstickets.com/miltonkeynes
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