Talking Heads – A Chip in the Sugar/Her Big Chance

A series of monologues, funny and poignant, normally from two to four of these would be performed at a time. A Cream Cracker Under The Settee tells of an old woman who has a fall, but her pride doesn’t allow her to accept help. Bed Among the Lentils tells of a woman with a drink problem, married to a vicar who exploits her recovery actually caused by an affair with an Indian shopkeeper. A Lady of Letters is the story of a woman obsessed with writing letters of complaint and reporting her neighbours who eventually finds comfort in prison. Soldiering On is the tale of a well-to-do woman who finds one day that she’s a widow and her husband has left her ill equipped to handle her own affairs – and her son loses her money in bad investments.

In A Chip in the Sugar, Rhys Harris-Clarke takes the role of Graham Whittaker, devoted son whose life begins to unravel when he discovers his ageing mother has taken up with an old flame. In Her Big Chance, Moa Myerson plays Lesley, an aspiring actress, who, after a series of unpromising extra roles on television programmes finds what she thinks is her big break as the adventurous Travis in a new film for the West German market.

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