Synopsis
High society lovers, part-time students and full-time hedonists
Andrew and Nicola are in financial trouble.
With no money coming in from Daddy,
they have borrowed heavily ... but forgotten about paying back.
Now a group of dodgy loansharks are starting to get heavy –
especially their leader, Wellard, who is after more than Nicola’s money.
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Andrew comes up with a death-defyingly cunning plan to con his father
(Baron McCann) and Nicola’s aunt Alexandra
(who just happens to be the Baron’s second wife)
out of enough money to pay off the sharks and have a big lump left over.
Soon the plot is as thick as Wellard, with Andrew and Nicola
leaping in and out of bed in response to a variety of visitors,
while the one who really wants to get into Nicola’s bed,
namely Wellard, spends most of his time hiding in the bathroom.
Things get really complicated when a pack of tabloid hacks and paparazzi
invade the flat just before the Baron and Alexandra arrive.
There is a lot of explaining to do but Andrew wriggles off the hook
and most of them live happily ever after.
| ![]() Singspiel in one act by Carl Maria von WeberPerformed at Wheatley House, Kingsley Hampshire in June 2000 and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2000 New performing edition arranged for augmented wind quintet by Erica Kollek Cast
Opera South Chorus
Linda Tolmie, Gunnar Cauthery, Judith Forde, Jeanette Gunston, Jenny Hill, Robert Hill, Tim Macer, Brockie Mytton, Alan Taylor The Omnibus EnsembleConducted by Erica Kollek
Stage directors: Björg Árnadóttir & Adam Forde Production Manager: Robert Hill |

