a comedy by Ray Cooney

Directed by Mike Sparks

December 2000

Thursday 7th at 7.45 pm
Friday 8th at 7.45 pm
Saturday 9th at 7.45pm

There are some pictures on the It Runs In The Family gallery page

The full programme [102K pdf] for this production is available from the archive

It is just before Christmas and Dr David Mortimore is about to address a neurologists convention, which will probably earn him a knighthood. While putting the final touches to his speech an old flame, Jane Tate, arrives and announces that their liaison years ago resulted in a son, Leslie, who is downstairs desperate to meet his dad. Frantic to hide this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, David is forced to invent not one but two non-existent husbands for Jane and enlist the help of his colleague Dr Hubert Bonney. Events are further complicated by the presence of a police sergeant, a wandering senile patient, an assortment of matrons, a syringe full of tranquilizer and the costumes for the hospital pantomime.......