November Production.  Casting has been completed and rehearsals have started for our November production of Noel Coward’s light comedy Present Laughter.

Cast for Present Laughter

• Daphne Stillington – Jessica Landy
• Miss Erikson – Charlotte McDermott
• Fred – Lewis Muir
• Monica Reed – Rebecca Aloneftis
• Garry Essendine –  Joe Hogan
• Liz Essendine  – Sarah Rice
• Roland Maule – Finn Riches
• Henry Lyppiatt – James Barnard
• Morris Dixon – Hamish Robb
• Joanna Lyppiatt  – Diane Morrad
• Lady Saltburn – Christine Low

The story depicts a few days in the life of the successful and self-obsessed light comedy actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment in Africa. Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry has to deal with women who want to seduce him, placate both his long-suffering secretary and his wife, cope with a crazed young playwright, and overcome his impending mid life crisis (he has recently turned forty).