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Don't Dress For Dinner

 
Character Jacqueline
Analysis Attractive, sophisticated, highly intelligent with a hint of deviousness. Essentially straight role requiring precision timing at breathtaking pace.
Accent Standard English - Upper Class
Genre Comedy
Author Marc Camoletti
Producer Ian Dickens - Mark Furness - Paul Elliott - Chris Moreno
Director Ian Dickens - 
Venues National Tours
Dates 1993-1994-1995-1998-2002-2003
Reviews Vicki Michelle superb as the duplicitous wife.
    Local Press
Vicki Michelle was an excellent foil as Jacqueline and brought depth and dignity to this somewhat understated role.
    Woking Review
  Attractive Vicki Michelle playing "the straight man" in fine style. Skilfully she set up one comic situation and comedy line after another.  
    Evening Post
  I half expected Allo Allo veteran Vicki Michelle to run on in a short skirt speaking pigeon French. Instead she played scorned and adulterous wife Jacqueline with a plummy English accent and great aplomb.
    Local Press
  Michelle succeeds in making the character formidable enough to command authority while endowing her with enough humour and vulnerability to prevent her becoming the stock marital dragon.
    Essex County Standard
  Vicki Michelle was the perfect example of a sophisticated wife.
    Local Press
  Leading the company is Robert Duncan as Bernard - the hapless husband of Jacqueline a superb Vicki Michelle.
   

BBC Southern Counties Going Out

  Vicki Michelle was in delectable form.
    The Stage
 

Robert Duncan and Giles Watling give first class performances as they squirm their way out of the tricky situations they find themselves in. Equally first class is Vicki Michelle.

   

Local Press

 

Requiring split second timing and a huge amount of stage craft, it could not be in better hands than with this team of TV favourites led by Vicki Michelle, Robert Duncan and Giles Watling.

    Bournemouth Echo
  This all star production featuring Robert Duncan, Vicki Michelle, Glenda McKay, Giles Watling and Melanie Stace was slick, confident, impeccably well timed and delivered with predictable seemingly effortless expertise.
    The Big List
  Ian Dickens and his cast clearly have the measure of this play, they make it sparkle and fizz like the champagne they don't appear to get.
   

BBC Southern Counties Going Out

  Vicki Michelle packs a powerful punch.
    Local Press
  This is farce as it should be played.
    BBC Southern Counties Going Out
It's a dream cast.
    Northern Echo
A master class of fun, pace and timing.
    BBC Southern Counties Going Out
The cast of Vicki Michelle, Robert Duncan, Giles Watling, Glenda McKay and Melanie Stace gels right from the start.
    Local Press
Robert Duncan, Vicki Michelle and Giles Watling excelled themselves to deliver the laughs in this most difficult form of humour.
    Richmond and Twickenham Times