Dinner theatre with the Drama Society
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Veterans in the group may have reminisced about the days of the old Inn Theatre before it was transformed into the brightly remodeled Conference Room. But three simple backdrops converted one end of the room to a stage again, with the audience seated comfortably at tables around the performing area and in the "balcony".
Contributing to the pleasantness of the evening was the promptness with which dinner was served (7:30 pm, as scheduled); good food and wine (for this writer, the baked pineapple with rum and honey was by itself worth the price of admission); sparkling conversation, and the friendly laughter evoked by CDS members performing the one act play, I Spy.
Directed by Marilyn Osborn, the comedy featured the husband and wife team of Graham and Rhona Howells, Caroline Beresford-Wylie, Colin Wilson and Sheila Hendy. Graham played the undercover detective spying on Rhona, who had entered an unfortunate wart. ime marriage with Colin, who couldn't believe that his wife would prefer nobody over him.
Caroline was the properly pompous lawyer he consulted, and Sheila got more laughs out of one word, delivered with a variety of intonations, than anyone has done in recent memory.
Assisting backstage were Tony Osborn, Hilda Bodden and George ShortridAfter the encores, Tony took the stage briefly to invite anyone interested to attend monthly meetings for play readings, charades and other entertainments.
Tony is committee chairman this year, assisted by Caroline Beresford-Wylie (treasurer), Marilyn Osborn (secretary), Evelyn Andresen, Hilda Bodden, Anita Munyard, Gordon Neilson, Jon Vaughan and Colin Wilson.
Next on the CDS calendar is the comedy Move Over, Mrs. Markham, directed by Jeff Parker and scheduled to be presented at the Harquail Theatre in March. In May, the group will perform Girl in a Wheel Chair, a play described as a "thriller", written by Colin Wilson.
1987 is the seventeenth year for the Cayman Drama Society. Saturday's dinner theatre got the year off to a very good start indeed.
