A selection of sketches and songs with a Christmas theme that was taken on tour in the local community to entertain the elderly and infirm at Christmas time.
Category: Allendale Centre
1985
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Fish Out Of Water
Agatha rounds up the hotel guests in communal games and other healthy pursuits. Her unflagging spirit of togetherness invades the lives of all the characters with riotous results.
1985
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Dear Octopus
The life of an English family shown in terms of the chatter of youngsters, the careers and nursery memories of the middle-aged and the sense of the swift passing of the years.
1984
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Devil May Care
Trainee devil, Nicholas has been sent to Monte Carlo to lure souls for the Powers That Be. At the Hotel Splendide he meets another (higher level) trainee Virginia.
1984
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A Murder Is Announced
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place of an imminent murder. When an unknown visitor to Miss Blacklock’s home dies Miss Marple turns up to solve the case.
1983
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There Goes The Bride
A beleaguered advertising executive struggles to plan his daughter’s wedding after a knock on the head leaves him confused and obsessed with a beautiful, but imaginary, young woman.
1983
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Ten Times Table
The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history. But there’s a left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution.
1982
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Dangerous Corner
Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining guests – all of whom are associated with Robert in a publishing business. Robert tries to uncover the truth about his brother Martin’s “suicide”.
1982
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Harlequinade
Harlequinade is the story of two ageing actors desperately trying to cling to the ever-diminishing limelight while rehearsing for a production of Romeo and Juliet.
1982
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The Browning Version
In Rattigan’s play, teacher Andrew Crocker retires after 18 years as a classics professor at an English boys’ school, forcing a reevaluation of his past, his marriage and his future.