Cast & Crew          Gallery            Review     Jean is preparing a birthday dinner for her mild-mannered accountant husband Henry. Good friends Betty and Vic are expected any minute, and Jean is frantic because Henry is late. When he eventually arrives, Jean finds him not quite the man he used to be. He wants to emigrate to Barcelona immediately, and with good reason: the briefcase he accidentally picked up on the Underground is stuffed with bundles of fifty pound notes amounting to £735,000! But if getting the money was easy, keeping it proves harder, as not one but two police inspectors call and Henry, Vic, Betty and a bemused (and tipsy) Jean are forced into a frantic game of cat and mouse. Back to top   Cast Henry Perkins  Dan Hawkins Jean Perkins  Ruth Staton Vic Johnson  Mark Frampton Betty Johnson  Janet Denning Sergeant Davenport  Barry West Sergeant Slater  Peter Staton Bill  Andrew Kneeshaw Mr Big  Paul West    Crew Producers  Joseph Hughes & Paul West Stage Manager  Christine Sutton Set Design  Christopher Sutton Lighting  Ian Squire & Jim Johnson Sound  Christine Pearson & Ann Johnson Set Construction Jim Melville, Christine Sutton, Christopher Sutton, Ian Squire & other group members Props  Cath Staton & Christine Squire Prompt  Teresa Coles McGee Front of House  Hazel Blenkinsop and members and friends Tickets/Publicity  Becky Hunt, Sam Kneeshaw & Barry West Poster & Programme Design  Teresa Coles McGee Back to top Gallery Click on thumbnail for larger picture Henry (Dan Hawkins) makes hasty travel arrangements, while Jean (Ruth Staton) remains in the dark. Jean (Ruth Staton) has her nerves calmed by Betty (Janet Denning), Vic (Mark Frampton) and lots of alcohol. Henry (Dan Hawkins) adds to Vic's (Mark Frampton) confusion, while Sergeant Slater (Peter Staton) looks on. Sergeant Davenport (Barry West) teases Henry (Dan Hawkins) and Vic (Mark Frampton) about their "hanky panky under the blanket". Henry (Dan Hawkins) and Vic (Mark Frampton) try to switch Slater's (Peter Staton) briefcase for Henry's. Back to top Review From the Leamington Courier: Perfect Timing in Funny Money Hilarity ensued last week with the Cubbington Players' performance of Ray Cooney's Funny Money. In it, mild mannered accountant Henry Perkins (Dan Hawkins) accidentally discovers £735,000 and attempts to escape with the cash to Barcelona, despite his wife's pleas to the contrary. Cooney's play is an excellent choice and is very witty, except for one or two cheap and obvious jokes. It was excuted with energy and pace. Mark Frampton, playing Henry's friend Vic, acted and reacted brilliantly and had the audience in fits of laughter with his perfect comic timing. Frampton's contribution, though, was just one element in the entertaining performance of a well-cast ensemble. Back to top