Play: Don’t Dress for Dinner

When Jacqueline announces she is off for to visit her mother, an ideal opportunity presents itself for her husband Bernard to inveigle his chic, Parisian mistress Suzanne into their country cottage for the weekend.  Why not invite along his best friend Robert too, as an alibi?

And to make the arrangements easier, he’s hired a Cordon Bleu cook to rustle up the necessary gourmet delights.   The cook?  Ah, that’ll be street-wise Suzette.  And her jealous husband, George? Well, he’s a BIG fella!  And did we mention that elegant Jacqueline is having a torrid secret affair with the rakish Robert?  Throw in a dash of Chanel and a glug or two of Cointreau – the stage is set for a hilarious, fast moving farcical romp of mistaken identities, illicit trysts, quick-thinking improvisations, bribery and seduction, as the plans for passion turn into a nuptial nightmare!

Written by Marc Camoletti, and adapted by Robin Hawdon, “Don’t Dress for Dinner” is brought to King’s Theatre by the Annapolis District Drama Group this spring.