Two for the Tango

by Alistair Faulkner

Performed in November 2000 at Oldland Village Club.

When Chas and Dot - a Bertie Wooster clone and his slightly avant-garde sister - book into the Grand Hotel for a quiet weekend, they are blissfully unaware that their identical twins, in the form of Charles and Dorothy, are already in the vicinity. But not only that, Charles and Dorothy are currently embroiled in plans to escape from the dominance of their matriarch, the "Mem-sahib". Charles is planning to elope with an American showgirl and Dorothy has ambitions to take the showgirl's place in the review - "Twilight On The Volga".

Chas and Dot get unwittingly and hopelessly entangled in the plots, as mistaken identities abound and comedy becomes farce.

Add in the characters of Miss Finch, the midwife who delivered both sets of twins, Alphonse, the French - or not so French - head waiter, Major Harrington Brown, the crusty and vague father of Charles and Dorothy; Babs, the unwelcome and Amazonian fiancee of Chas; Reginald, the wet fish of a suitor for Dorothy; and Ruby, the perky and resourceful waitress, and you have the blue print for a witty and farcical evening's entertainment - very much in the Wodehouse style.

Photos of the production