Many thanks to the North East Wales Archives, Ruthin Branch and the Meredith Edwards Papers collection for this transcript from The Wiltshire Herald & Advertiser. Thanks also to Oliver Houston for requesting access.
September 28, 1956
From Theatre Corner:
COMEDY OF THE SELF-MADE WIDOWS
There is a strong affinity, in motive at least, between the two dear old ladies in Pertwee’s “Pink String and Sealing Wax” and the two wives in Ronald Dahl’s [sic] new comedy – “Your Loving Wife” – who are tempted to seek the adventurous freedom of self-designed widowhood. It is at the New Theatre, Oxford, this week.
After a comparatively quiet opening the plot develops at near-farce tempo and we find two middle-aged wives, wedded to a couple of domineering, hypochondriac twin-brothers, merrily compounding Borgian ideas to bump off their hubbies. In these essential preliminaries to freedom they are joined by a left-made [sic – self-made?)] and soon everything becomes so very, very simple.
Hermione Baddeley, Agnes Lauchlan, Meredith Edwards and Joyce Barbour head a highly competent cast that enables the audience to relish to the full the choice situations and dialogue that, at times, was, shall we say, broadly and aptly inelegant.