2000

April

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Trivial Pursuits

A comedy by Frank Vickery

Directed by Diane Davidson

	Cast
	Teddy	Jim Saphin
	Joyce	Anne Edwards
	Mona	Libby Bellhouse
	Pearl	Betty Simpson
	Roz	Carol Ardley
	Jessica	Tracey Padley-Smith
	Derek	Roland Garrad
	Nick	Steve Hill
	Deirdre	Sue Trueman
	Eddie	Aubrey Sinden

	Music	Freddy Crossman

	The action takes place in the garden of Nick's and Roz's suburban home on a Saturday evening in August.

Synopsis

A summer evening's barbecue is the setting for a meeting of the Trealaw and District Operatic Society. Next season's play is being announced but Nick, the Society's business manager, has promised a different show and the plum roles to four different people. As the evening progresses each character's foibles and talents are revealed: Joyce, once talented and well-meaning, is a lush; Teddy is alternately sweet and strident; Derek is pathetic but lovable.

The complex relationships between players emerge as moments of pure slapstick and farce alternate with ones full of real drama and pathos. Not every hitch is resolved, but at the end of this exploration, by turns ironic and serious, of the joys and heartaches of amateur theatrics, we leave the Society intact and its members ready for another season testing the magic and artifice that is theatre.