Set in residential care home for actors this award winning play focuses on four inmates who decide that the entertainment provide by the home is rubbish and they can do better themselves. They decide to put on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for the residents and their families to show care home managers how it should be done!
Actors are not backward in coming forward and things start to go wrong before rehearsals even start! Come performance night old grievances surface and chaos ensues!
Read an extract below:
Scene two
(Lights back up, thirty minutes later, all three have dozed off. Enter left Harry Harmon, in his late sixties, dressed quite extravagantly and isthe life and soul of the party. He surveys the room then creeps up behind Edith, produces a party hooter from his pocket and blasts it in her ear. All three leap from their seats, Edith screams.)
Edith: Jesus!!
Harry: No but close, Harry Harmon at your service.
(Gives a theatrical bow.)
Edith: How dare you, you bloody moron! Could have given me a heart attack, what sort of sick creature are you to abuse an old woman like that?
Arthur: Harry?
Harry: Arthur? Arthur Thurston? Well bugger me!
Grace: Harry Harmon? Great Yarmouth 1976? Dame Dolly?
Harry: Dear lady! You have me to bang to rights and you also have me at a disadvantage?
Grace: Gracie, Gracie Pinkney…Cinderella?
Harry: Of course! Gracie our beautiful Cinders. Darling you don’t look a day older, as lovely as ever.
(Sweeps her into his arms and plants a big kiss on her cheek.)
Grace: Ohh, go on with you.
Edith: Harry Harmon. As I recall the Eastern Daily Press called you Dolly the Dope.
Harry: Ah! Don’t tell me now, I recognize that satanic expression, those blazing eyes, the curled lip…..stepmother! That’s it, you were Cinders stepmother.
Edith: And constantly having to pull you out of the mire. You were appalling.
Harry: And you haven’t changed a bit my dear.
Edith: I am not your dear.
Harry: God be praised.
Photos from Halton Players production. The last photo shows the team receiving the award for the best comedic moment.
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