Our next play will be...Love Begins at Fifty
The director will be Paul Cohen and this play will be performed from 25th to 27th September 2008.
First read through date to be announced at the AGM.  Love Begins at Fifty Synopsis:
This play is an original farce which has 3 male parts and 6 female parts.
Amateur Stage reviewed the play in their January 1999 edition and described it as "frenetically funny" and "a fast and furious farce which provides hilarious opportunities."
The play centres on Anita and Clive Debanks who have been married for 28 years and have led an uneventful life. But all that is about to change. Although in a loveless marriage, Clive has never been unfaithful. However, as preparations for his 50th birthday party are underway, Clive feels that life is passing him by and has a yearning for a final fling.
To this end he chooses three prospective partners from the "Lonely Hearts" column in the local paper. By a strange twist of fate, the same paper is offering a Caribbean cruise, as the first prize, in a competition to find the perfect married couple.
Anita enters the competition, but keeps it secret from Clive. A photographer arrives to take the pictures of the happy couple the night that Anita is away, but Clive is busy entertaining one of his new dates. From that point onwards, things get a little complicated, to say the least!!
Our next musical production will be...  Cole Porter's Anything Goes
This musical will be performed from 17th to 21st February 2009.
Further details to follow. Anything Goes Synopsis:
The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster (Moonface Martin), a wealthy debutante and her mother (Hope and Evangeline Harcourt), a nightclub singer (Reno Sweeny), and a wealthy New York businessman and his stowaway assistant (Elisha Witney and Billy Crocker). It turns out that Hope is Billy's long-lost love. Unfortunately, she is now engaged to a wealthy Englishman, Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. After a series of comedic happenings, Billy manages to win back Hope. Meanwhile, Billy's friend, Reno, manages to seduce and win Lord Evelyn. All this happens while Moonface Martin attempts to escape the law and Hope's mother strives to maintain her social status.
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