Quote, Unquote  Tranquillising stuff. I know most of our previous productions had been material from the 1950's but this had dated REALLY badly. And after Wolfsbane I was hoping for something a little more adventurous,  not just another "genteel comedy" - with the emphasis on "genteel" rather than "comedy". In fact, I was probably rather insufferable about it. Nowadays, if I'm not enamoured of a play I ask not to be involved but we were a bit stuck for men so I reluctantly agreed to take the part of Brian. I mean, how can you not have fun playing a bigamist? Quite easily as it turned out, but at least I did get to wear an extremely tasteless jacket. Too tasteless to picture here, in fact.  I remember we had to apply direct to the author for royalties. Patricia Gordon seemed a nice enough old dear and sent us a letter back saying how pleased she was that we were bringing her characters to life. '"Pleased", I think, is something of an understatement. Oh yes - Natalie specifically asked to swap from playing Judy to playing Mollie, the only ex-wife who didn’t succumb to Brian’s charms again and have to kiss him! Thanks Natalie!  David
Not sure about the play but I always enjoyed working at the Film Theatre; the atmosphere was good and it's nice to be able to do a "proper" curtain call Ailsa
The play was terrible but the cast did their best with the material Betty

The Audience Won't Notice  Discovering a pipe in the dressing room David asked our only pipe smoker, Gordon, if it was his. It wasn’t. Just then Dave Barber’s voice came drifting up from the stage - “Do you mind if I smoke my pipe?”, followed by muttered grumbles as he frantically patted his pockets. Unfortunately the next page of dialogue was all about the joys of pipe smoking! Heaven knows how they got out of that one. Dave even ended up playing Brian’s fourth wife. (Offstage, fortunately) Unfortunately, he just wasn’t sufficiently feminine leading some members of the audience to think that Brian was gay!

Was I In That One?  So it was goodbye to Yvonne and Gordon after giving three sterling years of service to the Chameleon Players. Vastly experienced both onstage and off, they had provided some much needed stability in the early years when a wildly fluctuating membership and lack of a performing venue could have sent everything pear-shaped.  After two years stage management duty Margaret made her acting debut. And then left. Lisa came back after spending a year in Germany. And then left.