Le Dîner de Cons

Francis Veber’s highly successful modern French farce gets the Culture Emulsion treatment. Pierre Brochant is one of the Parisian businessmen who have a weekly ‘idiots’ dinner’, where guests bring along a dimwit who can be ridiculed. Brochant finds an excellent candidate in François Pignon, but well before the dinner things start to go wrong when the businessman finds himself getting more and more involved with the gaffe-prone walking disaster Pignon as Brochant tries to make it up with his estranged wife … There are phantom mistresses, unlikely offstage car accidents, a tax inspector, and misunderstandings and mistakes by the tonne. And of course it’s in French.

There are further performances on 9 February and again on 21, 22 and 23 February.