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The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband
by Debbie Isitt
31st March - 7th April 2001
Directed by Chris Janes

Kenneth and Hilary have been married nearly twenty years, but as middle age encroaches, Kenneth finds himself in the arms of another woman. At first, Laura seems to represent everything that is missing from Kenneth's life with Hilary, but his little fling quickly becomes desperately out of hand and his world a spiral of lies and deceit. After initial denials Kenneth is soon forced to confront the truth and leaves Hilary for Laura.

Only one little problem... Laura can't cook. As time goes by, Kenneth mourns the loss of Sunday roasts and haute cuisine, and the comforts of a settled life. He begins sneaking back to Hilary's house for the pleasures of her culinary skills and when Hilary invites Kenneth and Laura over for dinner together, he readily accepts - unaware of what delicacies Hilary has on the menu.

Told through a series of flashbacks interspersed with the 'last supper', The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband is a highly entertaining exploration of jealousy, humiliation, deceit and betrayal which gives an entirely new meaning to the old adage, "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach."