SO WHAT’S NEXT?

Fromus Players’ next production will be on Thursday 13^th and Friday 14^th May in the Market Hall, Saxmundham.  We will be staging Murder At Checkmate Manor, a comedy by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr.  Performances will start at 7.30pm on both evenings and tickets will be available from H G Crisp in the High Street from mid April and members of the company, priced at £7.00 (£6.00 concessions).

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society (FAHETGDS) Murder Mystery production of this ambiguous and cunning Agatha Christie-style 1930’s drawing room murder mystery requires them to play all 14 roles (aided by their stage manager, Gordon) with hysterical results. Every drama group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the FAHETGDS are no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that could happen does.  The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects take on a strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitious evening’s entertainment with this cunning whodunit.  And just in case the audience should get bored there’s a Film and Fashion Show, and a Murder Mystery Quiz complete with Prize.  The crunch comes in the denouement when the “murderer”, about to be revealed, has to rush home to bandage up an injured daughter.  But Mrs Reece, the doyenne of the group, rises above the slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation and provide the final inventive twist.

David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. have written 10 Farndale plays starting in 1976 with the ladies’ version of “Macbeth” for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This murder mystery is the third of the FAHETG series and premiered in 1980;  the Farndale ladies are known and loved worldwide and for two nights Fromus Players become the FAHETG Dramatic Society!