Charles Dyer
Lovers Dancing

Each year two dancing couples meet to commemorate not only the ballroom championship when one couple lost due to a suspected sabotage of trouser braces which meant the others won, but also the conception of a child during the drunken night that followed when they all shared a bed. Their nineteenth anniversary, however, turns out to be particularly eventful... First presented at the Albery Theatre starring Georgina Hale, Colin Blakely, Jane Carr and Paul Eddington. (Cast 2m, 2f)

“Charles Dyer writes like a dream ... [Lovers Dancing] is about sexual disaster and people trapped inside their own impossible expectations ... this is a play about a lot more than doubtful parentage: it’s about success and failure in the outer reaches of bad-taste living...”
~ Sheridan Morley, Punch

“[Charles Dyers’] new comedy deals in sexual aspirations and disappointments. If the tone is hardly new or the theme surprising, Mr Dyer still writes ... with an energy and occasional eloquence...”
~ Eric Shorter, Daily Telegraph

“Charles Dyer is a master of invective and the sharply chiselled phrase.”
~ Milton Shulman, Standard

“Mr Dyer, Wycherley to Pinter’s Congreve, writes a heightened, baroque language of loneliness, lust and sexual inadequacy ... Lovers Dancing moves and disturbs, strangely.”
~ Giles Gordon