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Tonight at 7.00pm…, St Andrew’s Drama Group, St Andrew’s Church, Boscombe

A mouth-watering supper followed by songs, sketches and a short play, linked together by what I can only describe as Christmas cracker jokes accompanied – intentionally – by klaxons and boos, melded together to provide an unusual and entertaining evening.

The sketches covered the likes of mistaken identity, a king’s breakfast, a hotel information desk and the freedom of having been left by one’s husband, while somewhere in the middle came a couple of decidedly strange ‘sisters’ performing a fan dance to the Beverleys’ well-known song – which went down a storm.

Finally came The Last Resort, a cleverly scripted short play by co-director Mike Brooke. This was set in a b&b of which Basil Fawlty would have been proud, and where guests were charged for all those things we take for granted, such as cups of tea, baths and use of the cruet (a family heirloom).

All the above gave the performers plenty of opportunity for a variety of characterisations, so it was a pity that the effect was too often muted by a less than secure knowledge of the scripts.  But there is obvious potential within this fairly new group, so I shall look forward to their next offering with interest.

Linda Kirkman

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