[Starring] Peter Cushing and David Stoll
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A farce by Ben Travers

A largish house, Rookery Nook, with plenty of doors off its ample lounge - doors through which to escape or hide or enter unexpectedly: just the place, in fact, to cope with the sort of situation that arises when a pretty damsel in distress (and pyjamas) cornea in by way of the front lawn in the middle of the night.
Not that Clive and Gerald Popkiss are the men to let a little matter like this daunt them, even though the simple demands of Popkiss chivalry are soon enough complicated by the need to placate misplaced suspicions on the part of wives, sisters-in-law, and a really dreadful person known as 'the daily woman.'
And then of course there is Twine - that pillar of correct behaviour whose blundering involves Clive and Gerald in so much deception and even a little cheerful blackmail. Nor to mention the difficulties caused by the fearsome German, the irate Admiral, the halfwitted flag-seller. Does all this sound muddled? It could hardly be otherwise; the course of true farce never runs smoothly, and this is a classic farce. Rest assured that all the doors are fully used. (Peter Forster)