
Alan Ayckbourn's comedy follows a three couples who are linked their the husbands' workplace. One of the husbands is having an affair with the wife of his boss. In an attempt to cover-up their indiscretions from their suspicious spouses, the secret lovers use the unwitting third couple for their respective alibis. What follows is a hilarious mixture of miscommunications, misunderstandings, and misadventures culminating in a riotous dinner scene involving two different dinner parties at two different locations on two different nights but occurring simultaneously.