In this West End hit comedy the central characters are Bob and Jeff. The cosy domesticity of these lovers is threatened by Jeff's crisis. Jeff is considering leaving Bob... but for a woman, so that he can become a father.

Meanwhile, Bob contends with meddling family members who are ignorant of his living situation. His mother, a domineering comic creation, complicates matters by pressing Bob to get married. She refuses to recognize that there is anything about her son which might upset her conventional sensibilities. 

Can Bob's family - Lois and Bill, Nona and Arthur and matriarch, Vera - help to rescue the situation? And will Bob be able to tell the seemingly ignorant Vera that the "straight and narrow" is not the life for her favorite little boy?

Funny and touching.

Mail on Sunday

Entertaining and cunningly observed.

Sunday Express

Manages to hit the funny bone without straining desperately for effect.... mixing a lot of good jokes with a warm and sympathetic humanity.

Daily Telegraph

Shot through with the most bounteous comic invention and with moments so intensely moving they should make grown men cry. Not in many an evening have I laughed so much or come away with food for so much serious thought.

Daily Mail

Premiere Production:

Straight and Narrow was first presented by Theatre West Four, Chiswick in October, 1987.
The play was subsequently presented at The Duke's Head Theatre, Richmond, Surry in May, 1989.
It was later presented by Linnit Productions Ltd and Allan Davis Ltd at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, on March 18th, 1992 with Nicholas Lyndhurst and Carmel McSharry.