A Performance by the Cliddesden Players
What:
Cliddesden Players present two one-act plays:
'The Real Inspector Hound' by Tom Stoppard
Two theatre critics, Moon and Birdboot, are reviewing a performance of a country house murder mystery: A dead body is found at Muldoon Manor in Essex, the radio announces a madman is on the loose, and soon Inspector Hound shows up at the scene of the crime. But is he the real Inspector Hound?
Moon and Birdboot become involved in the on-stage action and their private lives (professional jealousy, infidelity) become inextricably mixed with those of the play's characters, as they become trapped in the play.
The play is centred around a spoof of Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap'. Don't be fazed by the elements of absurdism, just suspend your disbelief and enjoy the wonderful dialogue, the humour and try to guess "who-done-it"!
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'The Last Bread Pudding' by Nick Warburton
This clever comedy revolves around the committee of an amateur drama group, meeting to discuss a new play written by one of its members. We notice that, strangely, the way the meeting is presented to us seems to be reflecting the ideas that the committee members are suggesting forward for the play. So life appears to mirror drama - or does drama mirror life?
With a touch of surrealism, tongue-in-cheek (and occasionally adult) dialogue and irreverence towards what makes a good play, 'The Last Bread Pudding', is as unexpected as its title!
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When:
Friday 21st May 2010
Saturday 22nd May 2010