Corrie and Paul are newly-weds who have just moved into their cold eyrie of an apartment. Corrie is starry eyed; young lawyer Paul is less enamoured after staggering up five flights to reach an apartment with no bath tab and a broken skylight. Odd bohemian characters inhabit the building like Victor Velasco, who uses their bedroom as a back door. When Corrie tries to set him up with her lonely mother she learns, through a series of domestic catastrophes, that real marriage requires more than being barefaced in the bedroom and barefoot in the park.

Olivier award-winner Maureen Lipman's television credits include: Agony; Agony Again; About Face and Ladies of Letters. Film credits: Educating Rita and The Pianist. Stage credits: over twenty West End plays from Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers; Oklahoma!; A Little Night Music to When We Are Married. Her tenth book, I Must Collect Myself, is out in paperback. She previously directed Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys in Edinburgh.

One of the world’s most popular playwrights, Neil Simon has had countless successes: The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Laughter On the 23^rd Floor and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers. Simon also produced the smart, sharp books for the classic musicals Little Me, Sweet Charity and Promises, Promises. His screenplays include California Suite, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys and The Odd Couple.

“Maureen Lipman is superb” THE STAGE

“A highly entertaining, expertly acted and presented show” **** PUBLIC REVIEWS

“Maureen Lipman’s impeccable comic timing has the audience roaring with laughter” **** WHAT’S ON STAGE

“The theatre was packed to capacity and everyone left with a smile on their face” BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE

By Neil Simon

Directed by Maureen Lipman with Peter Cregeen

Cast includes Maureen Lipman, Oliver Cotton, Faye Castelow, Dominic Tighe, David Partridge and Hayward Morse