For their annual comedy starting this Thursday (September 1), the Third Age Players are staging Old Actors Never Die – They Simply Lose the Plot. In this two-act farce by Lynn Brittney, the action promises to be as funny as the title.
A womanising actor, Edmund, is being hunted by a Russian gang because of an affair he had with the gang leader’s mother. Edmund seeks refuge with his three ex-wives whom he maintains at a retirement home for theatrical people.
They agree to shelter him but are more concerned to ensure he makes a will in their favour before he is assassinated.
The Third Age Players was founded 19 years ago as the drama group of the Milton Keynes University of the Third Age.
Since then it has staged many productions, large and small, and gained an impressive number of awards, including a distinction at this year’s Milton Keynes Festival of the Arts. It has won a high reputation for the quality of its productions, and among its members are some of the most experienced actors and directors in Milton Keynes.
The cast for Old Actors Never Die – They Simply Lose the Plot is Dave Chawner, Walter Greaves. Heather Harris; Joss Lord, Steve Martin, Margaret Morton, Brenda Richardson, Mike Rutter, Jean Thomas, Allan Thomson and Ann Tynan. The director: is Vera Roper.
Performances are being hosted at the Chrysalis Theatre, Willen Park South, MK15 9JY.
Tickets are £10, concessions £9, and are available online from www.ticketsource.co.uk/tap
Performance times are Friday and Saturday, September 1 & 2 at 7.30 p.m. and Sunday 3 September at 2 p.m.
For more details call 01908 887 387.
