Wing it Dusty & The Hollow

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Wing it Dusty & The Hollow

Time: November 22, 2013 from 8pm to 9:45pm
Location: Four Bars - upstairs at Dempsey's - (opposite the castle)
Street: 15 Castle Street
City/Town: Cardiff
Website or Map: http://www.sabrain.com/dempse…
Phone: 02920 239253
Event Type: production
Organized By: Teresa Hennessy
Latest Activity: Nov 20, 2013

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‘Wing It, Dusty’ is the first ever stage play penned by Fishguard actress and Treasurer (God help them) of the Drama Queens Company, Teresa Hennessy.

After working together for approximately 37 minutes in the spring of 2012, actors Jennifer Scott-Reid (from Cambridge) and Teresa Hennessy (originally from Fishguard, but now living in Cardiff) decided to work together to take a high-camp, low-brow comedy to the 2013  Edinburgh Fringe Festival…and this is it.

Forever women to think things through (then dismiss any rational thoughts they may have had on the subject), the fact that Jennifer lived in Cambridge and Teresa lived in Cardiff provided no barrier to the rehearsal period… until they started rehearsing. They wish they could say that they had the foresight to buy shares in train companies and petrol stations but alas no; and I refer you back to the first sentence of this paragraph.

‘Wing it, Dusty’ tells the story of Deirdre and Roni who make the perfect couple. Maybe. Deirdre wishes Roni was Julie Andrews; Roni wishes Marni Nixon had dubbed Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia. They don't even have the same taste in music except for the divine Dusty. Both flawed, but comically grasping onto their world of reality by their fingernails in an attempt to help them get through the most important day of their lives. Planning for their big day, they will make you laugh out loud, but there's a twist – and will they be left laughing?

In his one-act play "The Hollow", the retired American theatre critic Roy Proctor explores an important but rarely discussed social and sexual issue, even in this liberated age - coming out as gay in old age.

Using the simple "Readers Theatre" format, Proctor gives us two American males who grow up together as neighbours in North Carolina, drift apart as teens, and then re-unite joyfully in a surprising late-in-life homosexual relationship.

Lloyd is the conventional one who stays in North Carolina, runs the family business, gets married, has children, and then becomes a lonely widower. In contrast, Clay is a free spirit who seeks sunshine and adventure in California and never marries. "The Hollow" - described by the author as "An Epistolary One-Act Play" - uses the reading of the letters and postcards exchanged by the two characters that brought them back together, in one of those surprising miracles of life.

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