Kindly keep it covered
Sun, 21 Feb 2010, 08:00 amGordon the Optom1 post in thread
Kindly keep it covered
Sun, 21 Feb 2010, 08:00 am‘Kindly Keep It Covered’ was scripted in 1997 by London born playwright, Dave Freeman. Despite being well into his 70s, Dave wrote this amazingly zany and punchy comedy, which played for a whole year in Vienna. It is the latest production from Limelight Theatre, 44 Civic Drive, Wanneroo. The play starts at 8.00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until 27th February.
Roland (David Nelson) and Julia (Jenni Crook) Dickerby's have bought a health farm with the Kindly Mutual insurance payout from the death of Julia's first, rogue of a husband, Sidney (Bob Mainwaring). However, an existence of fruit juice and carrots is hardly Roland’s way of life, and then there is his fearsome, Fawlty Towers Sybil-like, mother-in-law, Olivia (Sue Mainwaring). Nonetheless, things are running smoothly until Sidney shows up – back from the dead.
When Mrs Harbinger (Marie O’Brien), the wife of the insurance company’s main fraud investigator becomes a guest, fear and chaos strike the owners.
Neurotic Roland’s life is made difficult by the starving clients, one of whom, Mr Hooper (David Gostlow) has an uncanny knack of finding food.
With it being Midsummer’s Night, Olivia arranges a celebration and arranges for a police quartet to perform. When some of their belongings disappear, then PC Campbell (George McCabe) goes on the trail.
When I see comments on the programme like ‘Hilarious’ and ‘Zany’ I cringe and brace myself, because the plays rarely are.
Community theatre doing farce is often a shambles, but here, under the superb direction of Tony Sims this play just worked. It was slick and did not appear contrived. All of the elements, doors opening and closing, confusion, talking at cross purposes, fun underwear scene (wardrobe Joyce Gilbert, Margaret Wilson), the mad drunk, the ‘fly in the ointment’ were all there, blended and performed to perfection. This farce was genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. Fantastic cast team work, great accents, good solid well decorated set (Bob Mainwaring and Polly Waugh), excellent teching (Robert Benson-Parry, Wally Fry, Ann Valberg) – yes the superlatives keep coming. It was one of those once in a decade successful farces. Try and see it, but booking is essential.
‘Kindly Keep It Covered’ was scripted in 1997 by London born playwright, Dave Freeman. Despite being well into his 70s, Dave wrote this amazingly zany and punchy comedy, which played for a whole year in Vienna. It is the latest production from Limelight Theatre, 44 Civic Drive, Wanneroo. The play starts at 8.00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until 27th February.
Roland (David Nelson) and Julia (Jenni Crook) Dickerby's have bought a health farm with the Kindly Mutual insurance payout from the death of Julia's first, rogue of a husband, Sidney (Bob Mainwaring). However, an existence of fruit juice and carrots is hardly Roland’s way of life, and then there is his fearsome, Fawlty Towers Sybil-like, mother-in-law, Olivia (Sue Mainwaring). Nonetheless, things are running smoothly until Sidney shows up – back from the dead.
When Mrs Harbinger (Marie O’Brien), the wife of the insurance company’s main fraud investigator becomes a guest, fear and chaos strike the owners.
Neurotic Roland’s life is made difficult by the starving clients, one of whom, Mr Hooper (David Gostlow) has an uncanny knack of finding food.
With it being Midsummer’s Night, Olivia arranges a celebration and arranges for a police quartet to perform. When some of their belongings disappear, then PC Campbell (George McCabe) goes on the trail.
When I see comments on the programme like ‘Hilarious’ and ‘Zany’ I cringe and brace myself, because the plays rarely are.
Community theatre doing farce is often a shambles, but here, under the superb direction of Tony Sims this play just worked. It was slick and did not appear contrived. All of the elements, doors opening and closing, confusion, talking at cross purposes, fun underwear scene (wardrobe Joyce Gilbert, Margaret Wilson), the mad drunk, the ‘fly in the ointment’ were all there, blended and performed to perfection. This farce was genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. Fantastic cast team work, great accents, good solid well decorated set (Bob Mainwaring and Polly Waugh), excellent teching (Robert Benson-Parry, Wally Fry, Ann Valberg) – yes the superlatives keep coming. It was one of those once in a decade successful farces. Try and see it, but booking is essential.