Meet Al Lewis and Willy Clark, a one-time
vaudevillian team known as "Lewis and Clark" who,
over the course of forty-odd years, not only grew to
hate each other but never spoke to each other
off-stage throughout the final year of their act.
CBS invites the team to reunite for a special on the
history of comedy, and their differences of opinion
emerge again once they reunite.
A Letter from the General by
Maurice McGloughlin
14th to
17th March 2012
The Grove School, Lilley &
Stone Site
This is a complete change from our run of comedies
of recent times, and is a drama set in a foreign
country, which is being overrun by Communists in the
1950s. A group of Nuns is on the point of evacuating
the country as their work can no longer continue and
they are being terrorised by a sadistic Captain in
the new army. But one of the nuns is the Godmother
of the General who is the new Governor of the
Province and she receives a letter from him which
has a profound impact on the decision to stay or go.
The Game by Harold Brighouse
13th to
16th June 2012
North Muskham Village Hall
Written in 1913, debuting in Liverpool and somewhat
bizarrely ignored ever since, The Game is surely a
master class in prediction. Writer Harold Brighouse,
whose Hobson’s Choice was written two years later,
created a play that sparkles with some quite
beautiful writing. With Wales and Manchester City
captain Billy Meredith accused of match fixing in
1905, a scandal that outstretched any other of its
day, it isn’t hard to see where Brighouse drew his
inspiration. Football may be a funny old game, but
Harold Brighouse’s The Game is unquestionably a
funny old comedy.
