Touch and Go at Garrick Theatre

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Every farce starts with a lie and audiences can expect plenty of them when the Garrick Theatre brings the adulterous, suburban comedy Touch and Go to the stage starting November 24.

When Brian takes up jogging, his wife Hilary is not surprised. She has often told him he should exercise more after all the business lunches he consumes.

But when Brian is ostensibly running round the park, he is in fact with his attractive girlfriend Wendy in his good friend George's flat.

And while Brian is visiting Wendy, helpful George is having his own dalliance with Brian’s wife Hilary.

It is all plain sailing until George's wife Jessica arrives home early from a business trip and puts the cat among the pigeons.

The production is directed by Kalamunda actress Alice Dale, who has spent her professional life in theatre and TV in the UK and Perth, her television appearances include The Gift and Lockie Leonard and Thunderstruck.

Alice said the script for Touch and Go was the first time she found herself laughing out aloud on the first read.

“Having spent so much of my acting career in comedy, I tend to read a comedy with a very critical eye, deciding what will get laughs and what won’t,” she said.

“I knew this show would give an audience such a fun night out.
“Derek Benfield is a master of comedy but I was more familiar with him as an actor, appearing in films and TV series such as his Walter Greenhalgh in Coronation Street, Mr Scrimshaw in First of the Summer Wine and the husband in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.

“Back then I had no idea he was he was also a brilliant playwright and that he has written more than 30 stage plays, every one of them a hit.”

Touch and Go is showing at the Garrick Theatre on November 24, 25, 26, 27 and December 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Matinees on November 27 and December 4 at 2pm. Adults $20, concession $17. To book call Elaine on (08) 9378 1990 or email bookings@garricktheatre.asn.au

Authors

• Genevieve Pitot
• Jay Gorney
• Jean Kerr
• Walter Kerr