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The Lakeside Players - 2009

Love Letters was a terrific show with all who attended in agreement.  Nancy Hill carried off Malissa Garner as though she had actually lived it and Paul Lefevre As Andrew Makepeace Ladd III carried off the whole contrast perfectly.  It amazed all of us that a 2 person show could be performed with such affect.  A great show that I would recommend all check into should LSP decide to do another performance.

Due to personal considerations and commitments the LSP presentation for August is up in the air at the moment.  The original director had to beg off as personal family problems were not going to allow him to take the time required.  We do appreciate the notice so far a heard of time and are in the process of finding a director who has the time to do the August show slot.

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In August we will present

"Bedroom Farce" by Alan Ayckbourn.  

August 14th and 15th then August 21st, 22nd and a matinee on the 23rd.


"Bedroom Farce" has eight larger-than life characters, all married. The fact that everything plays out in the bedrooms of three of the couples, hardly makes this a sex farce. Sure, there's a lot of activity going on in each bedroom (eating snacks, drinking cocoa, talking, fighting, building a table, reading), but none of it includes sex. And so, as Ayckbourn's farce has no slamming doors, so it features a sex farce setting without sex.

While all the bedrooms are visible, the action shifts back and forth as the fourth and wildly dysfunctional couple, Trevor and Susannah, descend separately or together on the others, wreaking havoc wherever they go. The first bedroom belongs to Trevor's parents, Delia and Ernest, a forever-together couple whose cozy-comfy longevity is bolstered with hilariously trivial conversation and snacks taken in bed as an anniversary treat. The second belongs to Kate and Malcolm  who are giving a big housewarming party. Unfortunately, Trevor and Susannah are on the guest list, as is Trevor's former girlfriend Jan. When the insecure Susannah sees Trevor and Jan kissing, havoc ensues sending the guests scurrying for less troubled waters and leaving Malcom to put together a table which turns into a potently funny symbol of their marriage. In the meantime, Jan's husband Nick is suffering the physical agonies of a wrenched back. When Trevor, who has a talent for always doing and saying the wrong thing, arrives to apologize for the party-pooping kiss, he adds mental agony to Nick's back pain.

 
 

The Halloween dinner show at Chadbourn's 2009!

"Murder by Magic"  by Eileen Moushey

October 23rd and 24th then Oct 30th 31st and a Nov 1st matinee.


We have hired Merchant Entertainment to offer an evening of spooky thrills and ghostly apparitions. “It's the anniversary of a long ago tragedy…” as Lois Merchant, your host, sets the stage. In 1929 the vaudeville magician "Morgo the Magnificent," was performing, assisted by his beautiful wife, Clarisse. Something went tragically wrong with the act. The high point of their performance was when Morgo would "saw" Clarisse in half. And on that fateful night he sawed her in half. Only, he REALLY sawed her in half! In grief and remorse Morgo hanged himself and the couple haunts the location to this day. Lois has hired noted seer, Simone the Psychic, who will lead the audience in a séance to contact the ghosts of Morgo and Clarisse. Unfortunately, Simone appears to be a "few crystals short of a ball" and the séance does not proceed exactly as planned.