Following their success
two years ago, with the highly entertaining ‘Last Tango in Little Grimley’
and tribute to ‘Round the Horne’, CADS are performing, by popular request,
the sequel in the Little Grimley series, ‘Last Panto in Little Grimley’ and,
after the interval, more fun and games with ‘Round the Horne revisited’.
Last Panto in Little Grimley
In this very funny comedy,
we see Gordon, Margaret, Joyce and Bernard, the four stalwarts of the Little
Grimley Amateur Dramatic Society, tackle Gordon’s new sex pantomime (they’ll
try anything to attract an audience) with predictably hilarious results.
These four very different characters form the entire set of performers,
back-stage staff and any other role required to put on a show.
Helen Gartner skilfully
directs once again and has also managed to bring together the original cast:
Ben Lewis, Margaret Cook, Sarah Lewis and Tom Cobley. They welcome you back
to Little Grimley for a night of mayhem and laughter.
Previous experience of the
original play is not necessary to enjoy this show to the full.
Round the Horne revisited
Kenneth Horne headed up
this popular BBC radio series in the 1960s and this tribute is set in a
recording studio with the audience in the role of the studio audience.
Whether or not one is old enough to remember the original, the sketches –
mould breaking and even controversial at the time – are still as
entertaining as ever, featuring plenty of double entendres and innuendo,
sometimes in a language all of their own and not a swear word in sight. All
the old favourites are there: Julian and his friend, Sandy; breathless upper
class romantics Charles and Fiona; Lotus Blossom providing a flavour of the
Orient with ‘her’ musical interlude, playing a genuine Japanese flute in
this production, and many more.
Ted Hunter, a true master
of comedy, directs and performs for the last time before leaving the area.
He will be sorely missed, but it’s a great show for him to go out on. He is
joined here by cast members Mike Young, Andy Shea, Clare Humphreys, Roger
Fletcher, Brian Ball and Chris Harrod, the (not very technical) ‘technician’
who creates various sound effects before our eyes.
When?
Thursday 20th, Friday
21st and Saturday 22nd November 2008.
Performance starts at
7.45pm
Refreshments available
from 7.00pm
Where?
St Peter’s Hall, Hatchet
Lane, Cranbourne, North Ascot.
Tickets
£7 each.
Call Viv Lewis at the Box
Office on 01344-886456 to book.
