Hapless vacuum-cleaner salesman James Wormold is living in 1950s pre-revolutionary Cuba and leading a less than ideal life. His wife has left him, and his manipulative and materialistic daughter is expensive to keep. So when MI6 offer him the chance to increase his meagre income by indulging in a little espionage on the side, James takes their bait. But, with no actual information to send to London, he decides to fake his reports and invent a fictitious network of secret agents. Not surprisingly, it’s a decision that sees his life become ever more complicated... 

Clive Francis’ lively stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s hilarious, subversive and ever-popular 1958 novel is here brought to life by four actors who between them play more than 30 characters.

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