PUBLISHED April 21st, 2015 09:33 am | UPDATED June 9th, 2020 08:20 pm
‘No Sex, Please – We’re British’ is a riotous comic farce that has notched up a staggeringly successful sixteen-year run in the West End, and even a film adaptation in 1973.
The plot surrounds a young, highly ambitious, assistant bank manager, Peter Hunter, who lives in a flat above his bank with his attractive, new bride, Frances. Married life is bliss and Peter’s banking career blossoming but then Frances innocently sends an email order for some Scandinavian glassware. What comes back though is a box full of Scandinavian – ‘er, adult material! Then the fun starts!
The two, along with the bank’s frantic, chief cashier Brian Runnicles, must decide what to do with the subsequent veritable and unstoppable flood of extremely dubious photographs, books entitled 1001 Perversions, reels of blue movies and even the arrival of two, glamourous “party girls” that threaten to engulf this happy couple – not to mention Peter’s career at the bank!
The matter is further complicated with the sudden arrivals of Frances’ overpowering and intruding mother-in-law, Eleanor, and Mr. Bromhead (Peter’s so-important boss), Mr. Needham (a visiting bank inspector of even greater importance), and Superintendent Paul (a nosey police superintendent who won’t be deterred and threatens to reveal everything).
Add the muddled Brian Runnicles who does everything wrong in his reluctant efforts to help set everything right and all of that works up to a hilarious ending worth of one of the great, British farce plays.
“No Sex Please, We’re British” will take place from Wednesday, 6 May to Saturday, 16 May at Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel.
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