The Beau Chumps join us for our 3rd annual Laurel and Hardy celebration event - this time presenting 3 of the comedy duo’s classics based around the theme of marriage.

In Blotto (1930), Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife’s liquor, but she overhears his plans.

Helpmates (1932) has Ollie’s house in a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Receiving news that his wife is returning from vacation and fearing her wrath, he enlists Stan to help him clean up. Things go downhill quickly and they make more mess, not less.

And finally, in Sons of the Desert (1933) Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

There will be an intermission with special souvenirs and merchandise available, as well as a charity raffle.

The Beau Chumps are the Sunderland based Laurel and Hardy tent - an international organisation devoted to keeping the lives and works of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before the public. Find out more at beauchumps.wordpress.com