Swanage Drama Company

Swanage Drama Company (amateur) will be performing this rib-tickling riot of farce by Ray Cooney at the Mowlem Theatre as their summer production.

This is a fast-moving production set in a doctors’ common room in St Andrew’s hospital in London. Just as Dr Mortimore is about to deliver a life-changing speech, an old flame from his antics in the sluice room 18 years ago turns up with his love child.

His colleague Dr Bonney bears the brunt of Dr Mortimore’s attempts to keep his wife and the hospital authorities from finding out. As if this isn’t complicated enough, young Dr Connolly is trying to sort out the annual Christmas pantomime complete with costumes while a police sergeant is on the trail of he’s not sure what!

A senile patient is wandering about unsure of who or where he is and Matron is trying to hold things together even though she is perched on a window ledge several floors up and at the wrong end of a syringe full of tranquillizer.