Miracle at Blaise/Mid-Autumn Madness - Angel Players, Lilliput
THE calm waters of the Grainger household are about to be troubled in a big way.
Middle-aged bachelor Bernard has fallen for a bossy, rather "common" barmaid who loses no time in dropping hints about old people's homes when she meets his sisters.
Stuart Turvey and Lesley Gannon made a comically ill-assorted couple as lovebirds "Bunny" and "Budgie" while Barbara Everard and Jennifer Ford registered their dismay most effectively as the genteel sisters.
Betty Pemble played the sympathetic neighbour and Ron Kite was the visitor whose observations throw a new light on the romance.
This one-act comedy - presented after a fish-and-chip supper - was the second half of an entertaining evening opening with Miracle at Blaise, which was set in Occupied France in 1941.
Joan Higgins was the long-suffering Madeleine, patiently enduring the verbal barbs of her crabby sister-in-law Bertha (Barbara McKeown), while Jean Barnes played the mysterious Tabitha.
Jenny Davidson, Kate Mayo and Chris Andrews completed the cast of this thoughtful seasonal offering.
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