Friday Night's performance of "Who Killed the Director?" by Chris Martin was well received as was the slap up supper. The cast camped it up to melodramatic proportions and the audience responded with cheers and boos in all the right places.
The photo shows Geoffrey Speechly as Ralph Williams, the director; Sally de Sancha as Prudence du Maurier, the leading lady and former lover of Ralph; Graeme Christie in his debut role as Alex Pickles, stage manager and former convict; Louise Braybrook as Kathy the wannabe starlet and Richard Aston, the debonair but not particularly talented darling son of Prudence.
The three of us slaving in the kitchen had a flavour of the action through the roller shutter. Many thanks to Ruth Wheeler and Dave Bingham who laid everything out and served nearly 50 meals. Dorothy sweated over the stoves checking that nothing was burned or underdone. Ruth has asked to be on wine duty on Saturday in the hall at Ditton Priors as that way she'll get to see the play. Dave says washing up and trying to offload melting ice-cream was good therapy and it took his mind off other things.
We sold 43 tickets out of a maximum capacity of 48. Not bad at all! I noticed that most people were known to members and wonder whether there is any merit in newspaper ads when word of mouth seems more effective.
On to Ditton on Saturday 20th, where more of Keith Alderson's excellent beef stew will be served, with lashings of clues and lots of laughter!
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