AMATEUR THEATRE "Absent Friends"
Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd March 2008 - 8.00pm
Presented by The Sheringham Players
Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee. His friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him and understandably are on edge wondering what to say to him.
But there is more to their unease than that, for Diana and her husband Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge - whose husband Gordon is perpetually out of circulation due to trivial illnesses - are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties.
By the time Colin arrives for tea, tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only cheerful one among them, and his happiness and insensitive analysis of their trouble causes each in his own way to break down.
Tickets £7.00 (1st night £6.50)