Category: Comedy

1999

Blithe Spirit

Wimborne Drama,

20th October, 199923rd October, 2023

Charles Condomine, a fussy and cantankerous novelist, has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira.

1999

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Wimborne Drama,

10th February, 199923rd October, 2023

Lord Arthur Savile’s is engaged to lovely Sybil Merton. Her pet chiromantist Podgers has read Lord Arthur’s palm and foretold he would commit a murder…

1998

Fur Coat and No Knickers

Wimborne Drama,

14th October, 199823rd October, 2023

This play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark, which begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll.

1997

Mr Macaroni and the Exploding Pizza Pie

Wimborne Drama,

11th December, 199723rd October, 2023

This fun-filled play revolves around the antics of three waiters sacked by Mr Macaroni, the money-minded owner of the Pizza Pie Palace.

1997

An Evening with Gary Lineker

Wimborne Drama,

5th March, 199723rd October, 2023

July 4th, 1990. In Italy, England are playing Germany in the Semi final of the World Cup. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday trying to rekindle a failing marriage.

1996

Woman in Mind

Wimborne Drama,

5th June, 199623rd October, 2023

Ayckbourn creates a set of believable people whose weaknesses and foibles are food for mirth. We laugh at ourselves through his characters and the experience is at once pain.

1996

Run For Your Wife

Wimborne Drama,

21st February, 199623rd October, 2023

A London cab driver, John Smith, literally has two lives, complete with two different wives, Mary and Barbara. Somehow, he manages to juggle them both without arousing suspicion.

1995

And So To Bed

Wimborne Drama,

25th October, 199523rd October, 2023

A charming and scintilating comedy concerning Samuel Pepys, who calls on Mistress Knight but is forced to hide in a closet because of a visit to the fascinating lady by Charles II.

1995

One For The Road

Wimborne Drama,

5th April, 199523rd October, 2023

This observant comedy finds Dennis on the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, making a last-ditch attempt to break away from the confines of his middle-class, housing-estate existence.

1995

Cup Final

Wimborne Drama,

24th January, 199523rd October, 2023

The Polden Players have just left the stage after performing in a local drama festival. The production was a disaster sparks fly while they vent their feelings about the performance.