With names like Lady Rumpers and Canon Throbbing, Keighley Playhouse’s latest production couldn’t be anything other than Alan Bennett’s celebrated farce Habeas Corpus.
The trouser-dropping fun centres around ageing Dr Arthur Wicksteed and his pursuit of nubile patient Felicity Rumpers. Wicksteed’s wife, Muriel, lusts after the pompous head of the British Medical Association, Sir Percy Shorter, while his spinster sister Connie has schemes of her own.
Meanwhile, the doctor’s dull, hypochondriac son is in for some surprises too. There are double entendres, misunderstandings and lashings of innuendo a-plenty in this production.
Director Geoff Whitley says: “It’s a wonderful blend of satire, farce, melodrama and slapstick. The well-drawn characters weave their way through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual encounters. There are moments when they are exposed as isolated and helpless in their largely fruitless quest for gratification.”
The saucy show runs at Keighley Playhouse from March 7 to 12. For tickets, ring 08451 267859.
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