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Rumours is a riotously funny farce that centres around the efforts of eight party guests to spare their unfortunate host, and themselves, from scandal.
It opens with Ken and Chris who have found their host Charley, a prominent government official, in his bedroom too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his earlobe!
His wife, Vivian, and the domestic help are nowhere to be seen.
Len and Claire arrived, themselves injured in a car crash, and are soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems.
Following a second, accidental, gunshot that leaves Ken temporarily deaf, the police arrive and Len, drawing the short straw, pretends he is Charley.
He concocts a touching and fantastic explanation, that in the end proves more credible than anyone dare hope.
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