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“Habeas Corpus” - An IES Production, directed by Michael Mussell
27th to 30th June 2007
Written in 1971, this classic piece is a riotous mixture of bedroom farce and saucy seaside-postcard stereotypes: randy vicar; flat-chested spinster; bosomy good-time girl; seedy but rampant GP; luscious young lovely and an omniscient charlady straight out of pantomime.
Set in "Brighton's plush, silk – stockinged district of Hove," an apparently respectable family is revealed in their true colours amidst the lust and longing of a permissive society.
Bennett claims that some of the jokes now make him wince, but this action packed comedy will leave your sides aching for more as you recall that "he whose lust lasts, lasts longest."
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