Review of 2019 Season

 

Our May production was a double bill of two pieces by David Tristram.  We opened with his sketch "Coffee Break" which saw old school friends Charlotte and Lucy bumping into each other at Luigi’s Coffee Shop, having not seen each other for years.  The library became Luigi's for the evening, complete with service counter and the most amazing carrot cake! 

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And then, in the interval, Luigi's magically transformed itself (with some assistance of course) into the run-down and somewhat unloved Little Grimley Village Hall, for the one act comedy "The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley".

 

This is the third in the Little Grimley series, where we once again found Gordon, Margaret, Joyce and Bernard tackling yet another threat to their survival; this time in the shape of a rival am-dram group determined to upstage them.  Things were looking grim in Little Grimley, which is par for the course and this troupe of thespians, but as Grimley fans know, it’s never over until The Fat Lady Sings.

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Certain aspects of the Grimleys are quite close to home for an amateur theatre group and Tristram's comic outlook adds an element of outright hilarity at times - both during rehearsals and in performance.  One thing the props manager needs to be aware of is that Mr Tristram often throws in some tricky props to deal with - in The Fat Lady it was a (barely working) trombone needing to become an extremely bent trombone!  Hopefully our improvisation on this one worked out :-)

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We have previously performed two of Tristram's Grimley plays - 'Last Tango in Little Grimley' and 'Last Panto in Little Grimley' so we knew that the audience were in for an evening full of laughs.  Hopefully that's what we achieved.

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Cancellation of autumn production

Sadly we had to cancel our November production of The Opposite Sex. It was a tough decision to make but, due to family bereavement and illness within the cast, we felt it was the right one at the time. I think this is the first time we've ever had to cancel a play, and we were very sorry to disappoint our audience and hope you understand. 
 

But we returned in December for our annual Murder Mystery!

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Closing the year

December saw us back 'on stage' in the library with "Death on the Agenda" by Karen Winyard.  Based around the goings on of a local Women's Institute (very apt given 2019 was the centenary year) it saw jealousy, outrage and laughter.  As is our way, our resident detective Monsieur Poirot was on hand to help our audience solve the case.​

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Our plans for the next season weren't finalised at this stage,  but little did we know what 2020 would bring....

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Posted 16.6.20

KF

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