Group meets

Every Friday 2.00pm @ Recreation Hall, Portskewett.

RED RIDING HOOD

Performed by

Caldicot and District U3A Drama Group

December 17th 2009

*Please click the photograph below to access photo slideshow of the
rehearsal and performance of "Red Riding Hood"

Photographs taken by Ron Lapthorn & David Buckley

Cast:

Red Riding Hood	Lyn Thompson
Wolf	Rodney Imrie
Fairy	Wendy Prothero
Prince Edwin	Irene Viney
Bobby Shafto	Adrian Dallow
Grandmother	Ann Duke
Sir Jasper De Vyle	Tony Hirst
Boy Blue	Jan Potter
Bo-Peep	Cindy McOwen
Hustle (De Vyles Hanchman)	Dianne Payne
Bustle (De Vyles Henchman)	Pam Caines
Villagers	Joyce Davies
	Lilian Selmes
	Sue Bird
	Noreen Powell
Sound	John Duke
Prompt	Audrey Bright
Wardrobe	Glenice Dallow
Stage Crew	John Prothero
	Alan Viney
Director	Pam Caines
Assistant Director	Dianne Payne
Set	Tony Hirst
	Dianne Payne
	Pam Caines

 

At our monthly meeting in July our Drama Group entertained us to two wonderful sketches which were written by two of our members.

*Please click the photographs below to access photo slideshows of the
two Drama Group performances

"Last of the Summer Wine"

was written by our Chairman Pam Caines, who played the part of Nora Batty.

Tony Hirst wrote "Hello Hello" and took the part of Rene. The cast have only had two months to learn their parts due to their their last production being in May.

Our members filled the choir hall which continually rang with laughter at many moments in both sketches, one moment being when all the ladies in "Last of the Summer Wine" raised their cups from the saucers all in one move.

Although there were many laughs I felt the largest laugh in "Hello Hello" was when Herr Flick played by Adrian Dallow, Helga played by Cindy McOwen and Von Smallhausen played by Sue Bird walked or should I say limped on to the set in their black plastic macs.

Thank you all in the Drama group and the tea team, a wonderful afternoon's entertainment plus the refreshments and your company.

Ron Lapthorn

Photographs by Brenda and David Buckley

The Last of the Summer Wine sketch was written by Pam Caines all the women were having afternoon tea and discussing Howard's latest venture! Players were:

Pam Caines.........Nora Batty
Irene Viney.......... Betty
Jan Potter............Pearl
Adrian Dallow.......Howard
Ann Duke............Ivy
Wendy Prothero...Glenda
Noreen Powell......Marina

Hello Hello was written by Tony Hirst and players were
Rene.................Tony Hirst
Edith.................Joyce Davies
Madam Fanny....Lillian Selmes
Officer Crabtree..Dianne Payne
Yvette................Lyn Thompson
Michelle.............Pam Caines
Colonel Von Stropp.....Rodney Imrie
Herr Flick...........Adrian Dallow
Helga.................Cindy McOwen
Von Smallhausen...Sue Bird

The story was the Germans were holding their Sauerkraut Festival and someone had stolen their cabbages and sausages. Hostages were to be shot if they were not returned when the town hall clock struck noon on Sunday but then the town hall clock was stolen. The Resistance had a plan and it all works out nicely and Rene goes off to receive his reward from Yvette!!

The one act play was produced by Pam Cairns and set at the height of the Cold War in London in the swinging ‘Sixties’ when newly-weds Chris [played by Adrian Dallow] and Sally [Cindy McOwen] Taylor are moving into their new flat.

Ron [Rodney Imrie] a telephone engineer with a passion for paperwork is installing a new LZ920D telephone.

However the Taylors hadn’t ordered one and very soon they start getting some very strange coded messages concerning a yellow zebra, Dracula and John Wayne.

They have an unexpected visitor, a Russian lady [Irene Viney] who claims to be from The Department of Tourism and Sanitation and demands that the phone should be removed so it can be installed in the correct property The Russian Embassy in Kensington.

Mrs Davies [Jan Potter] their friendly neighbour and cleaner decides to seek help from ‘The Law’ as the Russian lady is threatening the telephone engineer with a gun because he refuses to remove the shiny red phone unless all the necessary forms are signed.

Nobody will complete the forms. The policeman [Tony Hirst] quickly handcuffs the Russian ‘Spy’ but in the process of taking all the details from those involved the ‘Spy’ disappears. Chris and Sally are now free to return to their decorating project .

The mix of characters and the situation made the whole thing extremely funny and the hilarious play had the audience in stitches. This was followed by a sumptuous tea prepared by the Drama Group and enjoyed by all.

Brenda Buckley