This is one of Ray Cooney's more over-the-top farces, forsaking the cold, cruel logic of classic farce occasionally for merely hysterical comedy, but it received the warmest of receptions last night from most of its large and appreciative audience.

All three doors and a large Georgian window with a marked propensity for trying to decapitate those who would use this unorthodox exit and entrance work entirely according to the script, which involves a would-be dalliance between a senior government minister and a secretary who works for the opposition leader.

The secretary's suspicious husband has engaged a private detective to follow the couple, the minister is supposedly to address an all-night sitting of the parliament, and the hotel manager is solicitous, at frequent intervals, to ensure that everything is to the minister's liking.

There is a mercenary waiter on room service trying frequently to do the same thing and, as things begin to get out of hand with the discovery of what looks like a corpse beneath that violent window, the minister sends for his own secretary to come to the rescue.

Enter (later) the other secretary's jealous husband, the minister's wife and a nurse, and you just about have it all.

By the standards of traditional West End farce, the playing is sometimes a mite slow and blunt under Terry Byrne's otherwise very efficient direction.

But (by the gratuitous addition of the word "sweetie" to the title) we are left in no doubt that the action has been moved from London to Dublin, despite that all-night debate in the house and despite the fact that the "Shelbrown" hotel decor in Lughaidh O Braonain's setting resembles more the decor of the old Buswell's than of today's grand lady of St Stephen's Green. Yet the transition works well enough.

Gerard Byrne works up a right old sweat as the minister on the lam, and Dessie Gallagher produces a performance of significant farcical proportions as his long-suffering secretary. Jimmy O'Byrne is the increasingly frantic manager, Tom Hopkings the increasingly venal and committed waiter.

The other parts are played energetically by Jenny Maher, Simon Delaney, Una Crawford O'Brien and Gail Fitzpatrick, with Hugh McCusker as the impressively still corpse.

It should do well for the scheduled five weeks of its run.

Until August 28th. Booking (01) 679 5720.