'A performance of comic brilliance... hilariously executed manic mayhem'

The Stage

'Martin Hyder is utterly compelling as the hapless Dr Prentice, whose brilliant comic timing brings about uproarious laughter... A tour de farce of a production'
The Bolton News

When less-than-reputable clinical psychiatrist Dr Prentice is caught in a compromising position with his new secretary, he makes a misguided attempt to cover up his indiscretion. How much harm could it really do?

But Dr Prentice hasn’t counted on the arrival of Dr Rance, a domineering government mental health commissioner who becomes bent on discovering the roots of Prentice’s bizarre behaviour.

Desperately attempting to cover his tracks, Prentice ropes in a collection of unwitting co-conspirators, including his sharp-witted wife, a bewildered policeman and a sex-crazed hotel porter. But as the fates continue to conspire against the hapless doctor, the panic and
pandemonium in the clinic reaches apoplectic proportions, and the more he tries to prove his sanity, the more insane he appears. Can anyone avoid the straight-jacket?

What The Butler Saw twists and turns its way through a hilarious chain of incredible mishaps, misunderstandings and misdiagnoses as the mismatched occupants of the clinic slowly lose their inhibitions, their clothing and their marbles!

Orton’s comic tour-de-force brings together taught, witty dialogue and brilliantly observed characters with outrageous situations, creating one of the greatest farces in British history.