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When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the Opposition’s typists, in the Westminster Hotel, things go disastrously wrong – beginning with the discovery of a body trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window.

Desperately trying to get out of an extremely sticky situation, Richard calls for his secretary, George Pigden who, through Richard’s lies sinks further and further into trouble with everybody and ends up going through an identity crisis. Things go from bad to worse with the arrival of Jane’s distraught young husband and with the addition of an unscrupulous waiter, a frustrated Hotel Manager, Mrs Willey and Nurse Foster – things really come to a head!

Ray Cooney is today recognised theatrically and publicly as ‘the master of farce’ whose credits include Run For Your Wife, Funny Money and Move Over Mrs Markham.