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• Nov 18th 2004 to Nov 20th 2004

Event Details

• Group: The Ruskin Players

Address

• Address:
  
  Ruskin Hall, Ruskin Road, Carshalton, Surrey
• Location: South East

Contact Details

• Contact: Box Office Number – 020 8647 5844 or jordyboy2001 [at] aol [dot] com

Extra Information

• Notes: Written for a company of six actors, two men and four women, each playing several parts in the six scenes which make up one piece, the play may be performed as a whole or using a selection of scenes, mixing the comic with the not-so-comic, according to taste.In Plaster, a husband, hospitalised following a car accident, is visited with hilarious results by his canny wife. Keeping Mum is a poignant monologue by a middle-aged daughter and Show Business follows the satirical vagaries of a TV Crew filming a documentary on the world’s first quadruple transplant. Going Home traces the lessons learned by a confrontation between a white woman and a black woman during their hospital stay. In Waiting, a lonely old man is visited by memories of his boyfriend and marriage, while Magic has a timid spinster awaiting a hysterectomy and suffering a visit from a crass work colleague and her husband who is given to appalling jokes and conjuring tricks.”…it should play to packed houses, if there is any justice at all, because it is a most enjoyable evening from a skilled practitioner…Harris’ writing is both apt and sympathetic without being at all sentimental…I cannot recommend it too highly.” What’s On”The writing achieves an exhilarating momentum. It is packed with sharp lines and cruel characterisations, mingling hilarity with a real disgust for humanity at its most mindlessly objectionable” Daily Telegraph
• Webpage: http://www.ruskinplayers.fsnet.co.uk