Rustington Players: Between Mouthfuls

	Between Mouthfuls & Gosforth's Fete By Alan Ayckbourn Wed 14th to Sat 17th March 2007
	Between Mouthfuls Part of Alan Ayckbourn's comic genius lies in his ability to put his characters into situations in which they have at one and the same time to deal with both turbulent emotions and the trivially banal superficialities of everyday life. Here we have that mixture in rich abundance. Two couples, connected by work and certain other matters find themselves eating at adjacent tables in the same restaurant under the descreetful but watchful eye of a waiter who shows his customers the mask and the audience his reactions. The play is written so that the audience hears only what the waiter hears..... Gosforth's Fete Little Pendon's village fete promises to be - and is! - a complete disaster: hardly anything is ready on time, the weather is awful, the and is late, the Wolf Cubs are behaving disgracefully and the eccentricities of the amplification system lead to some embarrassing private matters reaching the widest possible public. We see Ayckbourn's talent for piling up a farcically incompatible set of human agendas in a situation in which everything - even including some of the furniture! - is set against the success of the occasion. The results are hilarious. Review

Between Mouthfuls & Gosforth's Fete

By Alan Ayckbourn

Wed 14th to Sat 17th March 2007

Between Mouthfuls

Part of Alan Ayckbourn's comic genius lies in his ability to put his characters into situations in which they have at one and the same time to deal with both turbulent emotions and the trivially banal superficialities of everyday life.

Here we have that mixture in rich abundance. Two couples, connected by work and certain other matters find themselves eating at adjacent tables in the same restaurant under the descreetful but watchful eye of a waiter who shows his customers the mask and the audience his reactions. The play is written so that the audience hears only what the waiter hears.....

Gosforth's Fete

Little Pendon's village fete promises to be - and is! - a complete disaster: hardly anything is ready on time, the weather is awful, the and is late, the Wolf Cubs are behaving disgracefully and the eccentricities of the amplification system lead to some embarrassing private matters reaching the widest possible public.

We see Ayckbourn's talent for piling up a farcically incompatible set of human agendas in a situation in which everything - even including some of the furniture! - is set against the success of the occasion. The results are hilarious.

Review

Gosforth's Fete