Cloonacool Players set to entertain
Cloonacool Players will present their hilarious threeact comedy entitled ‘Don’t Tell The Wife’ written by playwright Sam Cree and directed by Tom Towey, in Cloonacool Community Centre on St. Valentine’s weekend, Friday 14 th, Saturday 15 th, and Sunday 16 th of February at 8pm nightly.
Set in Belfast in the 1960s, housewife Edna Willis (Geraldine Lundy) suspects that her plumber husband Bobby (Peadar Conway) is chasing another woman - a catholic.
He isn’t, but he does have a big interest in a long legged beauty named ‘Bridget’.
Edna, who kicks with the other foot so to speak, gets herself tied up in knots in her crazy attempts to stop him.
Encouraged by her nosy neighbour Isobel Tate (Mary K. Johnston) she gets in a lodger (Brid Calvey) in an effort to make Bobby jealous, which backfires in a spectacular fashion, sets up a date with a male escort (Denis Ross) which has her dancing around in circles, and totally confuses a bemused upright corporation official Eric (John McIntyre) who only wants to see her husband about a work mix-up.
Meanwhile Bobby’s apprentice Cyril (Dara McGarry) brings one of his girlfriends Hilda (Regina Henry) home to meet Bobby, with disastrous consequences.
All this is backed up behind the scenes by Sean Johnston on set, lighting and sound design, Declan Hannon, and Stephen Doyle on lighting effects, Gerard Conboy and Pat Taaffe on sound effects, Agnes Durcan and Liam Kavanagh stage management, Eileen Kirrane on props, Sonia Booth and Sinead Davitt on promotion, and set builders Sean Calvey, Alan McKim, Sean Feehily and Jimmy Coleman.
This is a must-see show that guarantees patrons a night of side-splitting laughter, and the utter chaos and general confusion generated on stage will send everyone home happy with a smile on their face.
They say that laughter is the best medicine of all, and if it could only be bottled and sold on the open market, it would cure lot’s of ailments.
So come along to Cloonacool Community Centre on St. Valentine’s weekend and enjoy a great night’s entertainment.
The show will also travel to The Dock Carrick-on-Shannon, St.Bridget’s Hall Tubbercurry and the Hawk’s Well Theatre Sligo, later in February and March.