p41 Run for your wife ...also showing 15/02
27 February 2013
An adaptation of Ray Cooney’s 1983 “adult” play, brought to you by the man himself (now 80). The plot involves a taxi driver (Danny Dyer), his two wives (Denise Van Outen, Sarah Harding) and their neighbours — one straight, two gay (Neil Morrissey, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair). I’d been warned that the film was inept and offensive but no one prepared me for the sadness. Run for Your Wife is crammed with cameos from once proud figures in the light entertainment industry. Prunella Scales, Russ Abbott... Desperation unfurls from their frail bodies like fog. To misquote Karl Marx, West End shows repeat themselves, the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.
