It is one of Coward’s wittiest and almost pseudo autobiographical plays, in which the pompous and egotistic Garry Essendine echoes much of Coward’s life, as he swans through relationships, and other life dramas.
There's something terrifying about Judy Bailey. I reckon she'd be a hard taskmistress. But that's precisely what's so great about her and, consequently, about the (mostly) con students who make up the Jazz Connection big band.
The two performances that make up the double bill of Fraudulent Behaviour and2 Dimensional Life of Her on offer at the Arts House Meat Market could not be more stylistically and conceptually different from one another.