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Plays & Wine 2018The Linlithgow Players return to the stage on October 12th and 13th (Friday and Saturday) with their annual Plays and Wine event, to be held at Linlithgow Primary School.
For those unfamiliar with this very popular weekend, it consists of some quality drama performed in front of an audience who lounge around tables with their kith and kin, feasting on the finest cheeses and wines Linlithgow can offer, while your friend, wife, or lover, drip feeds you grapes. If that sounds too much like a Roman party, rest assured we will leave our togas at home! This year as well as some short sketches, our two two main attractions are the wonderfully titled, Strictly Sex Factor on Ice (by author David Tristram) and Pulp Friction (by Ian Stewart). David Tristram is one of Britain’s most popular and performed playwrights and his comedies are firm favourites in amateur dramatic circles. Ian is also an award winning writer, although it should be pointed out that Ian’s award was a 50 metre swimming badge from primary school! In Strictly Sex Factor, The Little Grimley Amateur Society are faced with yet another threat to their very existence. Reality TV shows have ravaged their Saturday night audiences, which in their hey-day used to occasionally reach double figures. Never one to take these things lying down, Chairman Gordon has devised a cunning plan to compete head-on - their very own live Saturday night blockbuster, combining the best of all the other formats. All they need now is an audience, some contestants, four judges, a mirror ball... oh, yes, and some ice. Pulp Friction on the other hand is described by Ian as, “part mystery and part dark comedy about that point where relationships just aren’t working anymore. With a soundtrack from the early 80’s punctuating the performance, the play poses many questions but does not necessarily give the answers: Who is Stan and what’s his relationship to Dennis? What does David do at those damn conferences? Just what is Dennis’s new job with the Government? The audience is free to read into the play what they will. Everyone will have different ideas on what is being presented. Some may find it shocking, some may find it pointless, but perhaps that is the point.” 
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The Cast
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Pulp Friction
Written by Ian Stewart Directed by Ian Stewart and Eleanor Bain Dennis: Ian Stewart Stan: Mark Eggeling Carol: Liz Drewett David: Gavin MacDonald Kate: Sue Vizard Guilt Trip
Written by Judy Barker Directed by Judy Barker Dad: David Wotherspoon Juliette: Gillian McLean Mrs Hodge: Karen Gallie The Immor(t)al Memory
Written by Eleanor Bain Jane Armour: Eleanor Bain Agnes (Nancy) McLehose: Sally Oliver One Million Tiny Plays About Britain
Written by Craig Taylor Directed by Ray Myers Performed by: Ray Myers, Barbara Innes, and Gillian McLean |
The Photo
Written by Marion McQuattie Directed by Liz Drewett Performed by Lorna Irving Table Shout
Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Liz Drewett Man: Charles MacKenzie Woman: Barbara Innes Waitress: Karen Gallie Strictly Sex Factor (On Ice)
Written by David Tristam Directed by Thérèse Gallacher and Suzanne Hogg Gordon: Alasdair MacIver Joyce: Erika Oulton Bernard: Les Fulton Margaret: Judy Barker Acknowledgements
Stage Manager: Ruth McLarty, assisted by Lewis Eggeling Sound & Lighting: John Barker |
In Rehearsal!
