Run for Your Wife, a Ray Cooney classic, had a record nine-year run in London’s West End. It was later performed in many places all over the world, with a Hong Kong staging in 1988 as the inauguration production for the Artiste Training Alumni Association. Directed by Chung King-fai and with a cast of TV and film icons - Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Wong Yat-wah, Ng Mang-tat, Lo Hoi-pang et al, it became the hottest and much hailed stage production of the time. Caught in the Net, which Ray Cooney wrote in 2001, is a sequel to Run for Your Wife, and the hijinks of eighteen years ago continue…
The two-timing taxi-driver continues to revel in his dual-shift-double-wife lifestyle, and is still blessed with the round-the-clock help and unwavering support of his die-hard buddy. The only difference is that he now has a son and a daughter, by different wives, of course. The teenagers have never met each other, nor do they know each other’s existence, as they have been raised in two separate families. Yet, a crisis has finally popped up, because now, eighteen years later, we have - Facebook. Brother and sister have found each other in a “dad with same name” group and are meeting each other in person today. Our polygamous taxi-driver and his buddy are racking their brains and pulling all stops to prevent the siblings’ encounter… |
Playwright: Ray Cooney
Translator/ Adapter: Szeto Wai-kin
Director: Henry Fong
Producer: Dominic Cheung
Set Designer: Jacob Yu
Costume Designer: Shybil Yuen
Light Designer: Billy Tang
Sound Designer: Lau Wing-tao
Deputy Producer: Gladys Wong
Production Manager: Lawrence Lee
Performers: Cheung Tat-ming, Paper @ JuicyNing, Luther Fung, Mandy Yiu, Ko Siu-man, Au Yeung Chuen, Tam Tsz-ling |
