Last Tango in Storrington - Second Night

Friday 20 March 2015

Storrington Dramatic Society ventures into new territory as it takes a hard look, first, at the motivations and foibles of, guess what, amateur dramatic societies; and in the second item on a richly comic double bill, ponder on the administrative side of death and take a swipe at the self-serving jobsworths we all suffer.

In the first half, an unnervingly familiar amateur dramatic society is on the edge of closure, faced with a string of problems - until the chairman comes up with a brilliant idea, encapsulated in his one-word eureka-moment cry: “Sex!”.

Doubts soon give way to enthusiasm as the committee members lose their inhibitions and prepare to reveal onstage the shameful secrets and scandals of their fellow villagers.

After a chaotic and hilarious rehearsal period, the locals are presented with an evening of extraordinary home-grown drama - an evening they will never forget.

The second part of the evening takes a witty if somewhat biased look at the extremes of modern bureaucracy. A hard-driving senior local government officer starts dancing her last tango by killing herself in a car crash. She then finds herself in a strange office where a filing clerk and his boss inform her that she needs to be ‘properly processed’ before she can proceed to the afterlife.

The concluding scene links the two themes together and rounds off an evening of satirical, saucy, fast-moving visual and verbal comedy.

7.45pm at Sullington Parish Hall, Thakeham Road, Pulborough RH20 3PP.

Tickets: £8 from Fowlers Estate Agents Storrington and Nisa West Chiltington or book online.

Also on the 21st March at the same time.

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