Three short comic plays for the price of one ticket!
A top notch cast perform a wonderful trio of classic Coward comedies which encompass vaudeville, social satire, physical humour and pastiche.
Here is wit, music and fun.‘
Tonight at 8.30 is a cycle of ten one act plays which were originally played over three evenings. Not all of them are humorous but the three selected here are all comic. The plays have no connection to one another but a small company of actors perform a variety of rôles in them.
Red Peppers
George & Lily Pepper are a husband and wife act in a touring music hall. Their act has become rather tired and, between the musical numbers Has Anyone Seen Our Ship? and Men About Town, their life backstage has become an extension of vaudeville quick fire patter as the bickering couple drink beer and slang the Theatre Manager and the Musical Director. However, ‘he who laughs last….‘
Hands Across the Sea
Two bemused visitors accept a casual invitation from a fashionably smart couple to drop in at their Mayfair flat. However, in their enthusiasm, the hosts have invited such a horde of shrill glitterati to their cocktail party that amongst the arrivals, departures, telephone calls and flowing alcohol inevitable confusion abounds.
Family Album
It is 1860 and the mourning Featherway family gather to hear the will of their deceased father. Warmed by glasses of Madeira wine they begin to reminisce, old songs are revived, former games played and more glasses drunk. Reticence is overcome and pretence becomes abandoned as the party becomes increasingly lively. An amazing truth is about to emerge.
In addition to these one act plays there will be a musical interlude in the style of Coward.