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Slapstick fun and side splitting gags in A Comedy About A Bank Robbery by Mischief Theatre at the Marlowe Theatre

Everyone's a crook in Minneapolis, and in Mischief Theatre's The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, they come in all shapes and sizes.

Bursting with side splitting gags, rouguish shenanegins and a roll of double entendre so sharp it'll slap you into hysterics, it can be seen at the Marlowe Theatre until Saturday.

When a priceless gem is entrusted to a corrupt Minneapolis Bank, the doors certainly don't stay closed for long - especially when FBI agent Officer Randal Shuck (Killian Mackardle) arrives for everyone to suck up to.

Mitch's advances aren't quite as welcome as Caprice makes out (4282546)
Mitch's advances aren't quite as welcome as Caprice makes out (4282546)

So with loyal staff, it should be an easy task concealing years of fraud by bank manager Robin Freeboys (Damian Lynch). But this is a bank where three boys and three boys and three boys makes nine boys, and with secretary Ruth Monaghan's pick-pocket-doctor-lawyer-rabbi-son Sam Monaghan hell-bent on "robbin' three boys," the bank is a confusing place to be.

Love is in the air when Sam (Sean Carey) meets the boss's gold-digging-three-timing daughter Caprice (Julia Frith). But romancing in her apartment isn't as easy as it sounds when her not-so-ex-ex Mitch Ruscitti (Liam Jeavons) escapes from the penetentiary with a money making scheme and wanting to know why Caprice hasn't been visiting.

Caprice's apartment is a busy place (4282544)
Caprice's apartment is a busy place (4282544)

It all makes for a window-jumping-fake-moustache-wearing-bed-collapsing-bottom-smacking game of charades which Sam plays with life-endangered vigour as if his last breath depends on it... and that's before they all agree to rob the bank.

Armed with a hand drill, explosives and a pregnancy cushion sourced by assisting prison guard Neil Cooper, Mitch, Sam, Caprice and Cooper fool bank staff of their real identities, to the point where Officer Randal Shuck doesn't know who the real Freeboys is - even when faced with... erm... all three boys.

Officer Randal Shuck meets two of the Freeboys three boys! (4282552)
Officer Randal Shuck meets two of the Freeboys three boys! (4282552)

Meanwhile Mitch is otherwise engaged in the closet with Sam's mum, receptionist Ruth Monaghan (Yolanda Ovide).

Never fear, Mitch, Caprice and Sam escape through the ventilation shaft but when reaching out for a simple bit of diamond pinching, all three in the love-triangle are left hanging like babies.

All three robbers have their eyes on the prize. Picture Robert Day (4282548)
All three robbers have their eyes on the prize. Picture Robert Day (4282548)

In the end the diamond is won and true love is found, but who gets the girl and who gets the booty?

All will be revealed in this story about a bank in a town - where everyone's a crook.

  • A Comedy About A Bank Robbery is written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre.

It is also shown tonight (Wednesday) and Thursday at 7.30pm and there is a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Tickets £38.25 ‐ £12.75 from marlowetheatre.com

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