9 - 12 May 2007 Broughton
Players
IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
A Comedy by Ray Cooney
Dr David Mortimer is about to address a neurologists’
convention, which will probably earn him a knighthood. While putting the final
touches to his speech an old flame arrives and announces that their liaison
years ago resulted in a son who is downstairs desperate to meet his dad. Frantic
to hide the catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, David
is forced to invent not one but two non-existent husbands!
30 May - 2 June 2007 Preston
Drama Club
THE
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
This comedy of manners has the general theme of the absurd
behaviour of scandalmongers. Lady Sneerwell opens the play by complaining of how
she has been wounded by slander while she is plotting with Joseph Surface to
discredit his brother Charles in order to stop him marrying Maria, an heiress
and ward of Sir Peter Teazle. Joseph is an arch hypocrite and is paying court to
Lady Teazle, an ex-country maid and now leading scandalmonger, in order to get
to Maria himself. Maria, however, loves Charles, a wastrel.
