Dry Rot
From: Thursday, 31st May 2012
To: Friday, 9 November 2012
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Synopsis
A farce which deals with a crazy but very likeable gang of bookies who, in order to be near the racecourse, are staying at a country hotel run by a retired colonel and his wife and daughter. Secret rooms, sliding panels, mistaken identity and a nice little bit of romance are some of the main ingredients of this very racy and slick farce.
Our Review:
14 July 2012
John Chapman’s Dry Rot feels like a time capsule from a lost world of spivvery, nice public schoolboys, simpleton servants, retired colonels, funny foreigners, and comic coppers.
Three small time crooks attempt to make money by switching horses, and then when that doesn’t work, switching jockeys. Their centre of operations is a country hotel run by a retired colonel, his wife, and daughter, as well as a ‘you can’t get the help’ local maid. As cover for their actions they have engaged a fresh-faced innocent as secretary, who falls in love with the daughter of the house – which has, naturally, dry rot on the stairs through which characters periodically fall. Enter an incomprehensible French jockey, who is eventually himself nobbled, and the action builds to the climactic race with one of the crooks substituting for him – and winning the race.
Some of the play’s humour has undoubt...
Cast
George Banks (John Danby)
James Duke (Alfred Tubbe)
Nicholas Goode (Flash Harry)
Chris Hannon (Fred Phipps)
Adrian Metcalfe (Polignac)
Zoe Mills (Susan Wagstaff)
Creative
John Chapman (Author)
Theatre By the Lake (Producer)
Ian Forrest (Director)
Martin Johns (Design)
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