Don’t Dress for Dinner is a nifty comedy farce about double adultery and gourmet cooking that will have you crying with laughter and begging for more!

In a stylish private game lodge somewhere near the Kruger Park, Bernie is hoping to entertain his chic Johannesburg celebrity mistress, Suzy, for the weekend. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to furnish gourmet delights; is in the process of packing off his wife, Jackie to her mother’s for the weekend; and has even invited along his best friend Rob as a suitable alibi. It’s foolproof. What can possibly go wrong?

Of course, everything does. It is in fact the perfect recipe for an evening of hilarious confusion as Bernie and Rob try to escape the ire of the ladies by improvising at breakneck speed.

The production fields an all-star local cast, headed by James Cuningham as the naughty ladies’ man Bernie, and Robert Fridjhon as his hapless best friend Rob. Natasha Sutherland returns to grace the stage as Jackie, Bernie’s cool, attractive and rather intimidating wife, and Bronwyn Leigh Gottwald plays Bernie’s sexy M-Net presenter mistress, while Janna Ramos-Violante plays the spunky Afrikaans chef, Suzette. Her husband, the slightly sinister George, is played by exciting young actor and winner of Best Male Newcomer 2011 Mercury Durban Theatre Awards, Nhlakanipho Manqele.

Don’t Dress for Dinner will be directed by Steven Stead, designed by Greg King, with lighting by Tina le Roux;, the same team that brought Cabaret and Red to Johannesburg and Cape Town.

It will run at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre from Wednesday, 6 March to Sunday, 14 April, with performances scheduled from Wednesday to Friday at 20:00, Saturday at 17:00 and 20:00, andSunday at 15:00. It will also be showing at Theatre on the Bay from Thursday, 18 April to Saturday, 11 May.

All bookings can be made at the theatre or through Computicket at 011 511 1818.

For more information, visit www.montecasinotheatre.co.za. Alternatively, follow @Monte_Theatre on Twitter.