Arthur Bostrom Joins OUT OF ORDER UK Tour in Glasgow Next Spring

Full casting has been announced for Out of Order, the Olivier Award-winning comedy returning to the stage in 2017 a gleeful new production directed by playwright Ray Cooney, ('THE MASTER OF FARCE' - The Telegraph), who is celebrating seventy years in the industry. The production will arrive at Theatre Royal in Glasgow on Monday 17 April until Saturday 22 April 2017.

Arthur Bostrom, best known for his iconic role as 'Officer Crabtree' in classic sitcom 'Allo 'Allo, will join the cast as the 'Hotel Manager', alongside Shaun Williamson (EastEnders, Extras) as 'George Pigden'; Sue Holderness (Only Fools & Horses, Green Green Grass) as 'Mrs Willey'; Andrew Hall (Butterflies, Coronation Street) as 'Richard Willey'; Susie Amy (Footballers' Wives) as 'Jane Worthington'; James Holmes (Miranda) as the 'Waiter'; Elizabeth Elvin as 'Nurse Foster'; JuLes Brown as 'Ronnie Worthington', and David Warwick as 'The Body'. Completing the cast are Raphael Bar, Simon Murray, and Kate Sawyer.

When Tory Junior Minister Richard Willey tries to spend the evening with Jane, one of the Opposition's secretaries, in the Westminster Hotel, things don't exactly go according to plan - starting with the discovery of a body trapped in the hotel's only unreliable sash window... Enlisting the help of his hapless private secretary George Pigden, Willey's sticky situation goes from bad to worse, and with the arrival of Jane's distraught young husband and with the addition of an unscrupulous waiter, Mrs Willey and Nurse Foster things really come to a head!

Ray Cooney's credits include Run For Your Wife, Funny Money and Two Into One, Caught in the Net and It Runs in the Family. Out of Order was first produced regionally in 1980, under the original title 'Whose Wife is it Anyway', with Cooney playing 'George Pigden'. The show was subsequently produced in the West End in 1990 starring Donald Sinden, Sandra Dickinson and Michael Williams, with Cooney directing.

David Warwick has been involved in Out or Order since 1990, when he played the 'Body' in the tryout at Leatherhead's Thorndike Theatre (under its initial title of Whose Wife is it Anyway), then in the West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and the subsequent national tour. He went on to direct the play in the UK (Bournemouth & Sonning), Vienna, the Far East (Singapore & Kuala Lumpur) and the USA (Miami & New Jersey). He has also played Pigden & the Manager.

Ray Cooney said, "Having directed my Olivier Award-Winning play in London and all over the world, and hearing all that wonderful raucous laughter from audiences, it has become one of my favourite plays. I've up-dated it to present day and, fortunately, the basic premise of a philandering MP is as likely today as it was when the play was originally written!"

Out of Order is produced by Tom O'Connell Productions, with design by Rebecca Brower, Lighting by Jack Weir, Sound by James Nicholson and casting by Marc Frankum CDG.

IF YOU GO:

Out of Order

Theatre Royal, Glasgow

Mon 17-Sat 22 April

Mon-Sat eves, 7.30pm

Thu & Sat mats, 2.30pm

Box Office 0844 871 7647 (bkg fee) Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge

www.atgtickets.com/glasgow (bkg fee)

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