Run For Your Wife
John Smith is a taxi driver and very ordinary – except that he has two wives. He has a lovely wife and a perfect existence in Streatham and a lovely wife and a perfect existence in Wimbledon. And he flits between Streatham and Wimbledon – a distance of only 2 miles – like an over-sexed bumble bee.
This could have gone on forever except that one day a policeman...but that would be giving the game away. RUN FOR YOUR WIFE ran for over eight years in London followed by a New York production. It was described by the critics as “British comedy at its best” and is constantly being revived all over the world.
CAST 6 men 2 women
ONE SET
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First performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Windsor on the 26th October 1982 with the following cast;
Mary Smith - Carol Hawkins
Barbara Smith - Helen Gill
John Smith - Ray Cooney
DS Troughton - Peter Blake
Stanley Gardner - Royce Mills
Newspaper Reporter - Arthur Bostrom
DS Porterhouse - Bill Pertwee
Bobby Frankyln - Jimmy Thompson
Directed By - Ray Cooney
Subsequently produced at the Shaftsbury Theatre, London on the 29th March 1983 with the following cast;
Mary Smith - Carol Hawkins
Barbara Smith - Helen Gill
John Smith - Richard Briers
DS Troughton - Peter Blake
Stanley Gardner - Bernard Cribbins
Newspaper Reporter - Sam Cox
DS Porterhouse - Bill Pertwee
Bobby Franklyn - Royce Mills
Directed By - Ray Cooney