Karen finds employment at Lembridge Tennit, the conglomerate for which Henry worked, and in short order two of her bosses meet violent deaths and a third has a nervous breakdown.

[1] Ayckbourn was anxious to open a West End production at the Royal National Theatre, which he felt was the only London venue capable of accommodating the complicated staging.

The cast included Griff Rhys Jones as Henry, then relatively unknown Lia Williams as Karen, and Joanna Lumley as Imogen.

Audiences didn't respond well to a format that required them to attend two performances to see a complete play, and ticket sales suffered as a result.

Two years later, a film version entitled Sweet Revenge was written and directed by Malcolm Mowbray, but it failed to find a distributor.