Tuesday, April 29, 7:15 to 9.00 pm.
Thursday, May 1st callbacks if necessary
Held at Little Theatre’s FIREBARN
Go to www.littletheatre.net for directions
The CAST Ages are just a guide
Greg Poynter: 20’s - mid 30’s, an innocent, impulsive, with a strong sense of right and wrong
Ginny Whittaker: mid 20’s - mid 30’s, charming, very feminine, slightly zany, impulsive without thinking
Sheila Carter: 40 - 50’s, cool and calm, at ease with herself, country values, polite and trusting but not a pushover
Philip Carter: 40 – 50’s, sly, jealous, testy, angry, bombastic and indignant. A guy all over the place emotionally
THE STORY Time frame late 60’s
Greg met Ginny only a month ago but wants to marry her; Ginny won’t accept until she has persuaded her former married lover to stop harassing her with chocolates and flowers – and to secure some compromising letters. Greg meanwhile is intrigued by a pair of slippers in the bedroom that aren’t his. Sidestepping questions about the slippers, Ginny proposes to see her parents, who are unaware of Greg’s existence. She leaves and Greg finds a note of the address and decides to follow her. Unfortunately, Ginny is not going to see her parents, but her ex-lover.
Greg arrives at Philip and Sheila’s house in Little Pendon, in advance of Ginny. He meets the couple, whom he assumes are Ginny’s parents, and all have a conversation at odds with each other, leaving each other none the wiser who everyone else is. A bewildered Sheila then meets Ginny and has no idea who she is either.
By the second act, everyone is at cross-purposes. Ginny is convinced Sheila is aware of her and Philip’s affair. Philip believes Sheila has had an affair with Greg and that Greg wants to marry Sheila. Greg is confused by Philip’s attitude to him and his proposal of marriage to his ‘daughter’.
Ginny, finally able to speak privately to Philip, persuades him to pretend to be her father and he agrees to let Greg marry Ginny, but only after “Father” takes his “daughter” off on a holiday abroad.
Sheila, has been unaware that Philip has been having an affair but she catches on to the situation, manipulates Philip’s plan and changes it into a honeymoon for Greg and Ginny. The two return to London with Greg not realizing who he has actually met.
Philip realizes Sheila has worked out what happened,
but he is more interested about a pair of slippers in the house that aren’t his.
And Sheila’s not revealing whose they are either….
“Synopsis supplied by Alan
Ayckbourn’s official website:
www.alanayckbourn.net.”