Key For Two

Farce is always built on lies and Harriet, the leading character in Key For Two, can tell some whoppers! Lie number 1: Harriet has two lovers – Gordon and Alec. Both are married men, each unknown to the other and each with a key to the luxury apartment that they both subsidise. Thus the title, Key For Two. Everything is working beautifully until Harriet’s lifelong friend, Anne, arrives from New Zealand with a drunken husband she has dumped elsewhere in England, just as Gordon breaks his ankle and has to be put to bed. This means his “appointment” with Harriet clashes, for the first time, with Alec’s. So – Lie number 2: Alec is told that Gordon is Anne’s husband, followed rapidly by – Lie number 3: Gordon is told that Alec is Anne’s husband. Gordon phones his wife to explain why he can’t come home to her birthday party, because he has broken his leg and is “in a nursing home”. When his wife, Magda, tracks down the address from the telephone number, we get – Lie number 4: Harriet has to pretend to be the matron of the “nursing home” and Anne is the nurse. When Anne’s drunken husband (Ramsay – a vet) arrives, Magda is told – Lie number 5: He is the doctor! And that’s only the first five lies. Get the idea? You’ll laugh yourself silly as each lie causes more and more confusion over mistaken identities, which lead to misunderstandings, which become hysterically funny. Director Andrew Warwick, has brought together a very talented cast for this production, which features: Siobhan Vincent, Joe Isaia, Krysia Wiechecki, Keith Scrivens, Kerry Goode, Rodney van Groningen and Michele Acott.