TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS

Garlic and Lavender

This play by Nick Warburton and directed by Margaret Cook and Gill Ricketts was set in a Count’s castle in Transylvania. Two young and naïve English ladies, attracted by an advertisement in ‘The Lady’ arrived for a holiday. The spooky old butler, the cook and handyman all conspire to provide fresh blood for the Count. Local peasants gathering in weird pubs discuss the situation and a local doctor is determined to spike the Count’s guns. Add in a young man searching for his young lady and you have the recipe for misunderstandings and chaos.

Last Panto at Little Grimley

Amdram unmasked! Directed by Bruce Morris, this farce showed what really happens in the run up to most amateur productions. (Excluding any of Encore’s, of course.) An increasingly frustrated director, lazy stage hands, and various ladies vying for position led us up to the opening scene of a panto to end all pantos! Costumes half on, half off and broken limbs made for an hilarious finale.