by RAY COONEY

Produced by MARION NEWLANDS

Performed in January/February 2003

It’s three days before Christmas.  In the Doctor’s Common Room of St Andrew’s Hospital in London, David Mortimore is composing the speech he will give to a distinguished gathering of neurologists, a speech which may well make or break his career.  All he needs is a little peace and quiet to finish it…

Unfortunately for our hero peace and quiet is in very short supply.  A nurse with whom he had an affair years ago turns up to confront him with the fact that he is the father of her daughter, who is now eighteen. 

Not only that, but the said daughter is now downstairs in the hospital and is desperate to meet the Dad she has never seen. 

How on earth can Mortimore keep this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, and still deliver his speech? 

This hilarious farce reveals the sorry tale, and involves Mortimore’s hapless colleague, a police sergeant, a senile patient, an assortment of matrons, a syringe full of tranquiliser and costumes from the hospital Christmas pantomime. 

Following the success of their first joint venture, Uproar in the House, back in 1999, the Valley Players teamed up with Whitley Bay Theatre Club for a second time. 

This frantically funny play, like our first joint production, was staged not only for three nights in Seaton Delaval but also for two performances at The Playhouse in Whitley Bay.

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