Summer Confusion In Holiday Snap At Carlisle Green Room Club
Put on your shorts and don’t forget the sunscreen, thanks to the latest offering from Carlisle Green Room Club, we’re all going on a summer Holiday.
What better play to put on during the height of summer, than the irresistible comedy of Holiday Snap? Showing from 20 – 25 August at West Walls Theatre, this good old fashioned farce, written by Michael Pertwee and John Chapman, is set in a timeshare complex in Portugal and centres around the confusions which inevitably arise from a mix-up in the bookings. Take two couples – who needless to say are not husband and wife – and add a roster of other characters who turn up unannounced, and you have the makings of a typical English farce. As the person attempting to solve the confusion, a retired Naval officer, who let’s just say is over-fond of a tipple or two, becomes increasingly tipsy as the play progresses, things really do verge on the hilarious.
The Green Room Club will also be performing as part of this year’s Carlisle Fringe Festival, over the August Bank Holiday weekend. “During the heyday of the great Carlisle Fair, the Green Room Club made a name for itself for its productions of this type of play,” said Holiday Snap director, John Metcalfe. “We are delighted to be part of this year’s Carlisle Fringe Festival.”
Having been involved in the Cumbria amateur drama scene for over sixty years, John has acted in and directed plays and musicals for the Aspatria Drama Group, Carlisle Green Room Club, Carlisle Musical Society and Maryport Amateur Operatic Society.
His favourite acting roles have been Professor Higgins in ‘My Fair Lady’, Gary Essendine in Noel Coward’s ‘Present Laughter’ and C S Lewis in ‘Shadowlands’. Although his favourite form is comedy, he has also been involved in many straight plays and enjoys watching good theatre as well as being involved in it.
When John was asked to find a comedy to present at the height of summer, the hilarities of Holiday Snap seemed like a match made in heaven. Along with the cast and crew, he is hoping to send audiences out into the night, with aching sides, still laughing as they leave the theatre.
Holiday Snap is showing at West Walls Theatre in Carlisle from 20 – 25 August at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Centre in the Old Town Hall or by contacting 01228 598596
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