PRODUCTION DETAILS

 

TITLE:

Butter in a Lordly Dish  |  Cupbaord Love  |  Strictly Sex Factor On Ice

PLAYWRIGHT: Agatha Christie  |  Jean McConnell  |  David Tristram

PERFORMANCE DATES: 2nd - 4th November 2023

DIRECTOR: Carol Drinkwater  |  Jill Pearson  |  Andrew Faulkes

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BUTTER IN A LORLDY DISH CAST 

Florrie Petter / Susan Warren         Nicki Clay

Mrs Petter / Lady Enderby             Jill Pearson

Sir Luke Enderby                           Nigel Fisher

Julia Keane                                   Alice Hoskins

Hayward/Porter                             Bob Wells

Sound Engineer                            Geoff Stockill

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CUPBOARD LOVE CAST 

Peggy Higlett               Julia Birkett

Jane Frobisher             Nicki Clay

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STRICTLY SEX FACTOR ON ICE CAST 

Joyce                  Linda Baillie

Margaret             Helen Lawley

Bernard              Trevor Brittain

Gordon               Graeme Parker

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FROM THE DIRECTORS

 

Carol Drinkwater (Butter in a Lordly Dish)

 

As an avid reader of crime fiction and a lover of The Golden Age of crime books (1920-1939) this seemed like an ideal opportunity to direct this little-known work of its most famous member, Agatha Christie.

 

Christie belonged to the celebrated group of female crime writers of The Golden Age of Crime known as the Queens of Crime. Other writers included Dorothy L Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey), Margery Allingham (Albert Campion) and Ngaio Marsh (Inspector Alleyn) Christie’s own creations of Poirot and Miss Marple are renowned.

 

Butter in a Lordly Dish is a half hour radio play by Christie. First performed on the BBC Light Programme in January 1948.

 

The Radio Times advertised the play as follows:

“These words had a sinister ring but their meaning escaped Sir Luke until too late.”

 

This one-act thriller contains one of Christie’s most gruesome murders.

 

 

Jill Pearson (Cupboard Love)

 

My first debut with the Monday Players was in 1999. Since that time over the years I have taken many different roles and directed 4 plays and a Pantomime.

 

The last time at being director was 2013 "Salt of the Earth".  I now find myself at the helm again with Cupboard Love by Jean McConnell, which is one of a collection of short plays from Deckchairs 3. 

 

Peggy and Jane meet whilst jogging on the esplanade as they desperately try to fight the flab whilst being put through their paces by instructor Samantha. They find to their delight they have much in common, a passion for cooking and gentleman friends.

 

This is a play about passion and revenge.  I hope you enjoy.

 

 

Andrew Faulkes (Strictly Sex Factor On Ice)

 

This is our third production of a David Tristram play about the hapless Am Dram group of Little Grimley. They haven’t improved. Their audiences are still elusive, but their (always unachievable) aspirations remain undaunted.

 

Tristram is a current English comic playwright with many plays, films and a novel under his pen. He has a particularly clever way with dialogue and his farcical plays are very widely performed; he seems to delight in tempting groups like ours to stage them.

 

We hope that you will share some of the delight.