The Rich Man’s Table Simon TemprelI

Black social comedy at its most bitingly perceptive.The dark, wicked. hilarious story of three very different people whose lives become linked by the sudden, egocentric, power-hungry widow, discovers that her late husband’s fortune us bequeathed to a crass, vulgar Texan mistress. Felicity herself is the creator of Craven’s Hotel – an exclusive boutique style haunt of the rich and famous – but the hotel actually belongs to her brother Sebastian, an idle playboy whom she despises. When he is exposed in a rent-boy scandal, she sets out to destroy him.Meanwhile Claire, the dead tycoon’s secretary, deiscovers she is pregnant with his child after a moment of inebraited folly – but she is also diagnosed with leukaemia. These are only three of a marvellous cast of memorable characters in a wickedly enthralling social comedy where fortaune doesn’t necessarily smile on the most grasping and devious.