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In anyone else's hands Noel Coward's Fallen Angels would be a downmarket farce featuring a couple of sex-starved middle aged tarts with one thing - and one man - on their minds.
But this harmless bit of fluff is a cut above that and set among the upper classes in a swish Mayfair apartment. No-one drops their trousers although both leading ladies lose their inhibitions in a memorable drunken dinner party.
The comedy opened last night at the Royal & Derngate and showed that this 90-year-old classic is still capable of raising a titter.
The Angels in question are posh totty, life-long friends and neighbours, Julia (Jenny Seagrove) and Jane (Sara Crowe). Their dull but worthy husbands have gone off on a golfing weekend leaving them to entertain themselves.
A pretty boring couple of days were in the pipeline until both ladies receive telling postcards from...