The Safari Party
From: Friday, 15th April 2005
To: Saturday, 14 May 2005
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Synopsis
Going on safari party in Africa involves hiking through pumping heat across a domain of beasts. Going on a safari party in Cheshire involves tottering from house to house having a different course of a meal at the home of each couple. Grab you knife and fork and join the two and a quarter mile long dinner party. But beware, it's unfair to compare this kind of safari with the African. One involves considerably more ambushes, traps and predators than the other. And it isn't the African.
Our Review:
20 April 2005
The Library Theatre, Manchester, is currently offering its patrons a three course feast featuring fake antiques, car boot sale 'bargains' and broken country rules in this perceptive play by Tim Firth, writer of the musical, Our House and the hit film, Calendar Girls.
A Safari Party is a dinner party where each course is served in a different house. The problem here is that the first venue, Sparkbrook Farm, Cheshire is lacking a table and edible food! Brothers Adam and Daniel have sold the family table to a local antiques dealer who believes the tall tale that was used to sell it. When Inga, the gullible new owner of this table turns up at the Farm for the first course, the farce begins. And it doesn't end there, she has since sold the furniture to another guest!
Although this premise may sound corny, Firth has great fun sending up the heritage industry and the white lies which are used to persuade us all that any old tat is worth something as long as it com...
Creative
Tim Firth (Author)
Library Theatre Manchester (Producer)
Roger Haines (Director)
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