"Rumours" by Neil Simon.
26th - 29th November 2008 at The Tynemouth Priory Theatre.
Directed by Chris Johnson.
This riotously funny farce centred around the efforts of eight party guests to spare their unfortunate host, and themselves from a scandal. It opened with Ken and Chris who had found their host Charley, a prominent government official, in his bedroom, too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his earlobe! His wife, Vivian, and domestic help were nowhere to be found. Len and Claire arrived, themselves injured in a car crash, and were soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems. Following a second accidental gunshot that left Ken temporarily deaf, the Police arrived and Len, drawing the short straw, pretended he was Charley. He concocted a touching and fantastic explanation that, in the end, proved more credible than anyone dared hope!
Photography by Paul Kröner