Christmas Eve, 1983, and the former Rat Pack star Peter Lawford is alone in the Betty Ford Centre, with only a plastic capsule of cocaine for company. Not that long ago, Frank Sinatra was his best buddy, Marilyn Monroe was his best girl, and his brother in law was none other than the President of the USA, John F. Kennedy.

Now, Lawford is an alcoholic, thrice-married recluse. No more Hollywood, no more Washington, no more game shows.

Where did it all go wrong?

It Happened To Me played to great acclaim at the Camden Fringe in early August, and is Peter Briffa’s first play at the Old Red Lion since Country Life in 2011, which was described by WhatsonStage as “Quietly entertaining, brilliantly original”, and A Younger Theatre who said: “Everyone must go and see this thoroughly entertaining production. Now”.

The new, one person show, is directed by Owain Rose, hot on the heels of his latest production, Francis Beckett's MEGA, which is playing Upstairs at the Gatehouse in October this year.

And starring as Peter Lawford is Jonathan Hansler. In the last twelve months alone he has played both Stalin in Vodka with Stalin and Kenneth Baker in The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher both Upstairs at the Gatehouse, and is about to be in Oscar Wilde’s Vera; or The Nihilists, at the Brockley Jack.

NOT SUITABLE for anyone under 14. Contains references to suicide, murder, threesomes, alcoholism, cocaine, marijuana, and urolagnia. Something for everyone.