WORLD PREMIERE

Langton Herring Village Hall

YOU would be hard pressed to find a better choice of informal entertainment than this short comic farce that is usually offered along with a sociable supper after the performance.

Somerleigh Players field a first class cast of seven in this hilarious comedy in which a group of amateur actors arrive at a village hall for a technical rehearsal only to find that the set, scenery and technicians are all missing.

What follows is a wild and whacky production which includes among other things, a false beard, a fainting woman and an old fellow with wandering hands who thinks he is every girl’s dream come true.

Without a single false note throughout, the actors deliver the laughter right on cue as they tackle the marvellously witty script by Charles Mander which brings into the plot some of the mishaps and self-indulgent characters that the acting profession is prone to experience.

Under the imaginative direction of Melanie Hooley, drunken Ruth, (Sally Little) and obsessively fearful Sonia, (Roelie Newman), both over-act their heads off in true comic style.

Also going for broke are Katie Gollego, Phil Newman, Jeff Little, Geoff Markham and Stella Hollins who make the most of their madcap roles to create a rollicking comedy that never misses a beat and even manages to include a whole lot of misquotes from Shakespeare’s plays, brilliant.

There is a further performance on April 16 at Sydling St Nicholas Village Hall, you’d be mad to miss it.

MARION COX