I’ve managed to locate a reference to Your Loving Wife (the retitled and rewritten UK production of The Honeys) in the archive of The Birmingham Post.
October 16, 1956
From Midland Entertainments:
‘Your Loving Wife’ at the Theatre Royal
The slogan of “Prior to London presentation” which accompanies Your Loving Wife at the Theatre Royal Birmingham, last night, is patently not so far from the truth as many such optimistic phrases have been recently.
In fact one would go further and say that this comedy by Roald Dahl will be a considerable success, after the modifications already suggested by its tour have been made.
It has the virtues of a plot to appeal to any woman vaguely dissatisfied with her husband—or who thinks that one day she might be (and are we not all human?)—as well as to most men. It has a generous amount of witty dialogue and amusing situations. And it has, supremely dominating all, Miss Hermione Baddeley.
Magnificent Combination
To say that Miss Baddeley takes possession of the play is no reflection on the abilities of her staunch supporters, Agnes Lauchlan, Joyce Barbour and Meredith Edwards. Without them she could never produce the magnificent combination of raucous laugh, throaty confidence and positively Machiavellian countenance which accompanies—nay, comprises—her performance.
The slight plot depends on her. She is one (Miss Lauchlan is the admirably-conceived fussy other one) of an unfortunate pair who have married twin brothers. Both brothers are played with wholly commendable objectionableness by Meredith Edwards. Any two such sprightly American wives would wish to get rid of such husbands. Which they do.