By ALAN AYCKBOURN
Greg and Ginny are in love and planning to be married. Greg finds a
strange pair of slippers under the bed and is too besotted to believe
they might have been left by another man (which would also explain the
bunches of flowers and boxes of sweets filling Ginny’s apartment). When
Ginny goes off for a day in the country—supposedly to visit her parents
but actually to break things off with her older married lover,
Philip—Greg decides to follow her. Showing up unannounced before Ginny,
Greg asks for her hand from the man he thinks is her father, while
Philip mistakenly believes that the strange young man is asking
permission to marry Sheila, Philip’s exceedingly befuddled wife. Once
Ginny arrives, she convinces Philip to play the role of her father.
Meanwhile, Greg still believes that Sheila is Ginny’s mother. The
situation is further complicated by a series of hilarious
misunderstandings until no one (including the audience) can be exactly
sure who’s in love with whom.
(We performed this play again in 1996)
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