Cast		Backstage
Bernard	Tim Cartmell	Set Design	Joyce Woodcock
Jaqueline	Louise Rickerby	Set Construction	Jim Fleming Joyce Woodcock Richard Woodcock
Robert	Bob Whitson	Lighting	Michael Stockdale
Suzette	Karen Atkinson	Makeup and hair design	Barbara Mitchell Rachel Bonnington
Suzanne	Jennifer Collard	Costumes	Roberta Bowen and members of the cast
George	Ken Woolfenden	Sound effects	Charlotte Binks Andrew Ward
		Props	Clair Hurst Pat Shaw
		Prompt	Anne Cartmell
		Front of House	Veronica Stockdale Jan Kirk
		Raffle	Annabel Coulthard Robin Ward
		Refreshments	Anne Parry

DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER

The play opens with Bernard hurrying his wife Jacqueline off to stay with her mother for the weekend so that he can have his mistress Suzanne to stay for the weekend. His old friend Robert who lives in Hong Kong is in France for a visit and Bernard has also asked him to stay. Unknown to Bernard, Robert and Jacqueline have been also having an affair. When she hears that Robert is coming for the weekend she makes an excuse and decides not to go to her mothers. Bernard has organised a cook for the evening as Jacqueline was going to be away and he was going to have a smart dinner with his mistress and best friend. When Jacqueline decides to stay they leave the arrangements in place to have the cook who is only coming to do the cooking, serving and washing up, not the shopping.

Robert arrives and is welcomed by Jacqueline and Bernard.

Bernard decides that he will persuade Robert to say that Suzanne is his mistress and Bernard and Jacqueline go shopping for the dinner leaving Robert with instructions to get to know Suzanne when she arrives. Unfortunately it is the cook Suzette that arrives in their absence and as Robert doesn’t know Suzanne from Suzette, he assumes Suzette must be Suzanne the mistress. A lot of confusing conversation goes on and he persuades Suzette (the cook) to act as his mistress for the evening.

A lot of confusion occurs when Beranrd and Jacqueline return with the shopping as of course Jacqueline does not like Robert having a mistress other than her.