Foxed Books

Ivor Llewellyn has just completed his fifth divorce. His kindly lawyer, Mr Trout, a member of Bachelors Anonymous, is determined to save him from a sixth disastrous wedding. Sally Fitch stands to inherit a flat and a fortune if she doesn’t smoke for two years. Joe Pickering’s first play is about to flop and Sir Jaklyn Warner is after Sally’s money. People fall in love, escape romance and get bitten by dogs, all in a typically charming Wodehousian manner. Everything, of course, ends happily ever after.

This charming farce involves four people, three suitcases (one wrongly labelled) and a sunlit Greek island. Arriving at the airport the feckless Oliver, on a sudden whim, decides to pretend he is Dr Norman Wilfred, a renowned academic on his way to give a lecture at the Fred Topler Foundation. It seems as if Oliver is going to pull the deception off, but the chaos he leaves in his wake constantly threatens to catch up with him.