Set to take to the boards next weekend on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th is Ray Cooney’s comic farce, “Funny Money” directed and produced by Abbasali Rozais.
Casting in pros like Indu and Sanwada Dharmasena alongside fresh faces to theatre, the cast is rehearsing in full swing to capture the riotous and hilarious farce’s originality in order to render a true-to-form replication. The play is scheduled to commence at 7.30 p.m. on the said days at the Lionel Wendt auditorium.
The story follows the fate of Henry Perkins, a mild mannered accountant, who accidentally picks up the wrong, yet money-filled briefcase on an ordinary day after work. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase and thus his contact details he rushes home to book one way tickets to Barcelona for himself and his wife. He tells his confused wife to leave everything behind; if she doesn't like Barcelona they can go to Bali, in fact, with the cash Henry's found, they can buy Bali.
The doorbell rings as they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door wants to speak to Henry and accuses him of soliciting in the men's room of the local pub, when in fact all the while he was elsewhere counting the cash. The bell rings again. It's another detective, who has come to inform Mrs. Perkin's that her husband is dead. Murdered.
Two bullet holes to the head, clutching his briefcase in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from the impossible situation leads to increasingly hysterical situations. Will he make it to Barcelona? But before that, how will he manage to get out of his own house? Find out as the cast and crew strive to bring you the story in barrels of wit and energy.
With nearly a decade of experience Abbasali Rozais has staged his own plays Presidents, Promiscuity & Pineapples (2010/2011) and Clueless (2005), which have received critical acclaim. The cast comprises of Sanwada Dharmasena in the role of Jean Perkins, Indu Dharmasena as Henry Perkins and Zainul Meeadh, Chalana Wijesuriya, Sanjula Amarasekara, Abbasali Rozais and Yasal Ruhunage.
The Sunday Times, Daily Mirror and Daily FT are official print media sponsors. Tickets priced 1500/=, 1000/=, 800/= and 500/= will be available at the Lionel Wendt from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.
By Nivedha Jeyaseelan
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