Ray Cooney: Run for your Wife

Ray Cooney's much-acclaimed comedy for six men and two women was seen at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, with Richard Briers, Bernard Cribbins and Bill Pertwee and has been a smash-hit launch for The Theatre of Comedy Company. John Smith is a London cabbie with his own taxi, a wife in Streatham, a wife in Wimbledon—and a knife-edge schedule! By strict adherence to this schedule, he has been a successful, if tired, bigamist for three years, but one day, gallantly intervening in a mugging, he is taken to hospital with mild concussion. In the ensuing complications, aided by an unwilling Stanley, John tries bravely to cope with a succession of well-meaning but prying policemen, the press, two increasingly irate wives and a very gay neighbour, until he manfully confesses the truth—but no-one believes him!