Directed by: Anthony Leach

The play is set in 1943 in the living room of the Vicarage of Merton-cum-Middlewick. Penelope Toop is a former actress and now the wife of the local vicar. Miss Skillon, a churchgoer of the parish, arrives to gossip with the vicar and to complain about the latest ‘outrages’ that Penelope has caused. Rumours fly and complications multiply for the vicar’s wife. Add in Ida the Cockney maid, an old friend of Penelope’s, Lance-Corporal Clive Winton, an escaping German prisoner, the Bishop of Lax, people pretending to be who they are not, knockabouts, drunks, and a very well-trained dog and a frantic farce is assured.

Dates: 13 - 18 September 2010

Sponsored by: Cox 22