HARLEQUINADE, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, October 25 - 28
Performances at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday with 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday
From the McCallum FANLetter:
This is a play in one act and concerns a professional theatre company presenting Romeo and Juliet. The opening night is in the town of Brackley in the English Midlands. The principal characters are Arthur and his wife Edna (who play Romeo and Juliet) and the stage manager Jack. Arthur is horrified to be confronted by his grown up daughter (Muriel) and grandchild, of neither of whose existences he had been aware. To discover that he’s a grandfather just before playing Romeo is too much for him. They later learn that he’s still married to Muriel’s mother (Flossie) and that he is bigamously married to Edna. There are a number of other threads running through this play, such as Jack’s attempts to leave the theatre and do a ‘real job’ and the humdrum world of bit players and the attempts in post war Britain to bring culture to the masses. It is a funny farce which has a strong satirical element to it.
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HARLEQUINADE, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, October 25 - 28
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