There’s No Place Like a Home
- By:
- Paul Elliot
- Cast:
- Joan Savage, Gorden Kaye, Ken Morley, Tony Adams, Ray Alan, Peter Byrne, Brian Cant, Richard Grieve, Sue Hodge
- Director:
- Chris Colby
- Design:
- Alan Miller Bunford
- Lighting:
- Colin Wood
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Paul Elliott's 'capturevating (sic) new comedy', currently on national tour, in support of Combined Theatrical Charities, has all the plausibility and panache of a Women's Institute production of Mother Courage. Charity may well begin at home but it is difficult to be charitable about this ham-fisted hybrid of a play, which falls flat on its face somewhere between farce and thriller. Set in a retirement home for actors threatened with closure, it charts a dastardly plot to kidnap and hold to ransom Lord Archer on the dubious assumption that even the fragrant Lady Archer would want to redeem him...
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