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White Lies and Black Comedy
23-25 March 2006
(24th March 2006)
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White lies and Black comedy - double bill from the Tarrystone players.
It's a great night at Pinder Hall with these
two comedies from Cookham's Tarrystone players. Richard James wrote and
directed White Lies a fabulous play for 5 women. Meeting up after 30
years 4 University Pals discover why they they might not have
actually been such good friends!
It's very funny, beautifully played with a
starring role for a Theresa May lookalike and soundalike - Lynne Smith,
with Ann greenwood, Tina Langley and Sue Roberts playing the friends
who get their own back with hilarious results....Newcomer to the
Tarrystone Hannah Yates plays a delightful waitress!
After supper served by members of the troupe
we are treated to Black Comedy directed by Sue Kidd.
This is unusual because when the lights are
on we see nothing but blackness, but when the lights are off we see the
characters stumbling around as if in a black out!
Richard James plays a hilarious Basil Fawlty
type bachelor who puts his foot into everything. Natalie Milner and Lucy
Newell play his competing love interest with hilarious composure, and
Newlands School Drama teacher, Hilary Wilson shows how to spend
the play delightfully sloshed!
Josh Saxon, a journalist on the
Advertiser got the his role as a brilliant camp neighbour when he came
to do a piece on the Tarrystone players and found himself reading for
the part! It's his first acting role and is a sensational tour de force.
Watch out for gorgeous pomposity from Brian
Smith as the father in law, a classic German goon from Colin Jackson,
and it may be small role for Michael John Saunders but he makes a
spectacular splash and startling exit!
Absolutely must see this night to remember!
Well done the Tarrystone players - a real treat!
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