Run For Your Wife

By Ray Cooney

About the Show

A hilarious farce about John Smith who has two wives, two lives and a very hectic schedule!  When Smith is mugged and ends up in a hospital, his schedule runs amuck, both of his addresses surface and mayhem ensues. If you enjoyed Leading Ladies, you’ll love this show.

Notes from Artistic Director Charles Burr

I love farce.  You only have to look at my last 28 years here to see that fact.  The first show I directed on this stage was “Charley’s Aunt,” one of the great farces of the last 120 years.  “Lend Me a Tenor,” “Leading Ladies,” “Moon Over Buffalo,” “Room Service,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” are just a few of the crowd pleasers that have graced our stage.  The English seem to have a special affinity for them, and Ray Cooney is the current master farceur of the last 20 years. 

“Run for Your Wife” has a simple premise.  A taxi cab driver shuttles back and forth between two wives on a complicated schedule.  He has an accident….and his perfect world starts to crumble.  And we have the fun of watching him try to repair it, but in classic farce tradition, he only makes matters worse.

This play is for adults.  I would think in reading the premise you wouldn’t be bringing the kids.  It’s pretty similar to something like the old television show “Three’s Company”—all innuendo and few suggestive lines—or better, since it’s British, “Are You Being Served?”  It is also so fast paced they may sail right over your head.  As always I will be having the cast race around our small stage.  I’ll have to see if I can break the Guinness record for the number of times an actor can jump over a couch in a single evening…

I hope you will all join us for a play that the New York Post thought had "Virtually continuous laughter" here from July 22 thru 31.

"I was exhausted from laughing so hard."-WMCA-Radio

"Audiences will enjoy the show tremendously."-N.Y. Daily News

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