Government junior minister plans evening with Opposition typist. What could possibly go wrong?

Boundary Players’ Out of Order by farce-master Ray Cooney is running at the William Penney Theatre, Tadley, from February 5 to 8.

Written in the 1990s, it’s classic Cooney. When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the Opposition’s typists, he does not anticipate finding a dead body trapped in the sash window of his room.

Enlisting the help of his hapless private secretary George Pigden, things go from bad to worse with the arrival of his wife, Jane’s distraught husband, an unscrupulous waiter, a frustrated hotel manager, George’s mother’s nurse and a Spanish maid. This will be one night that Richard will wish he had actually been at the all-night debate in the House of Commons!

In 2023, the Mill at Sonning premiered an adaptation of the play by Michael Barfoot, It's Her Turn Now, which changed the lead character into a female MP.

Booking and enquiries: http://www.boundaryplayers.co.uk/

Boundary Players amateur dramatic society sprung from the Dramatic Section of the Ministry of Supply Recreational Association (Aldermaston), founded in 1952. Plays produced have been many and varied. Members come and go as work and the community change but, the Boundary Players continue to aim high and work hard for the enjoyment of all concerned, on both sides of the proscenium arch.