It’s a double header for the Rep!

Company will perform at two venues

Rutherglen Rep is set to return with a double-bill of one-act plays.

The am- dram group will bring Geriatric Challenge by Isabella C Rae and Last Rites by Andrew Cleary to Kirkhill Halls on Friday, April 7 and Rutherglen United Reformed Church on April 8.

Geriatric Challenge is a comedy, set in Auchenpukie Community Hall as a quiz show for the elderly arrives in town.

The owner of the local care home has brought along some residents to compete, and rivals Patsy and Annie are each determined to win and carry off the prizes.

However the quiz show hostess soon finds she’s bitten off more than she can chew, and the evening certainly doesn’t live up to her assistant’s expectations.

Isabella said: “I never remember where I get my ideas from but I’m certainly always looking for ways to include ‘more mature’ members in the club.

“It seemed a good idea to reverse some of the usual stereotypes about youth and old age, so University Challenge became Geriatric Challenge.” The evening’s other play is a drama. Last Rites focuses on a dying man, Jason White.

After he receives the last rites he believes that’s the end for him and just waits to die.

But when an angel and demon appear in his hospital room it suddenly becomes apparent that his death is not the end, but the beginning.

Andrew said: “I think I got the idea of the play from a cartoon with the angel and demon on the character’s shoulder and I just ran with that idea and thus the play was born.

“Last Rites has some dark themes in it and I’ve been putting that it’s probably only suitable for children over the age of 14.

“This was the first play I’d ever completed myself and it was finished last year.

“I’m fortunate enough to be in the Rep with some good writers so I had a bit of help putting it together.”

Andrew hopes the double-header will provide a bit of variety for the audience.

He added: “We always like to try and give two different plays so that we can appeal to a wider range of people rather than two plays that are practically the same, because that’s not very exciting for the audience.”

Tickets are available at www. rutherglenrep. org. uk/ tickets and they will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

Tickets cost £ 7 adults or £ 6 for concessions.

See http://rutherglenrep.org.uk/ for more information on the Rep.