WHILE we swelter in the current heatwave, the LADS are swapping steak and sausages for set-building and stagecraft, practising their blood-curdling screams as they rehearse the late summer production.

The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle is a fast-paced comedy and spine-chilling mystery that combines murder, mayhem … and Tupperware.  Imagine the love child of “Rocky Horror” and “The Play That Goes Wrong” and you won’t be far off the mark.

Once again, the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society make a spectacle of themselves. Sympathise with their hapless producer as he does his best to impose order. Attempt to make sense of the enthusiastic sound effects. Learn the importance of a good cleansing and moisturising regime!

With multiple role and costume changes, inept prompting and luggage with a mind of its own, this show throws up challenges for everyone – cast, backstage and especially the director!

Director Julia Thomas explains, “I have directed a number of plays and they have all brought their own challenges, but The Haunted Through Lounge takes challenging to a whole new level. The demands of synchronising set changes and scripted set failures, entrances and exits, complex lighting and myriad sound effects and props are ‘differently challenging’ to say the least!”

How will they fare? You have to wait until September to find out.

Evening performances will be held at Llanymynech Village Hall at 7.45pm on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd September, with a family-friendly matinee at 2.30pm on Sunday 4th. 

Tickets are on sale now and are available from:
TICKETSOURCE.CO.UK/LADSTHEATRE
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Llanymynech Village Shop
Or by calling Marg on 01691 830558

Rehearsals are underway for our upcoming production - 'The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle', by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. 

The ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society make another spectacle of themselves and their harassed producer. A hilarious tale of murder and mayhem that is guaranteed to bring the house down - or at least a substantial part of the set! 

Huge congratulations to the cast & crew of 'Fancying Sheep', the LADS production that made it through to the final of the Drama Association of Wales One Act Festival. Actually, three groups from Montgomeryshire made it through to the final this year - so some of our friends from Guilsfield ADS and Newtown MTC were headed to Ystrydgynlais too! Sadly, none of us won the overall 'best in Wales' award; that went to the Players Theatre Company from the Rhondda. But what a fantastic experience for our team - including several brand new members. 

But best of all - our very own Rebecca Smith was awarded the Best Actor trophy. What an achievement! Bex's parents have both been involved with the LADS for many years. Bex came along to LADS when she was a child and has been involved ever since. She is now a shining star and I'm not sure who is more proud - her mum and dad, or the rest of the LADS. Congratulations, Bex! 

THE LADS are performing Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on Marriage at the end of November – the group’s first production in nearly two years.

Mixed Doubles takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters. Each is an independent play in its own right but the whole sequence, linked by a series of wickedly anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly, adds up to an amusing, wry and well-observed picture of the journey that can be married life from honeymoon to cemetery.

The characters in Mixed Doubles appear to be plagued by everyday trivialities, their pasts, their jobs, and their marital problems – married life, after all, is not always straight forward.

It was first produced at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1969.

Each play was written by a different playwright, so there are plays by Alan Ayckbourn, John Bowen, Lyndon Brook, David Campton, Alun Owen, Harold Pinter, James Saunders and Fay Weldon.

Mixed Doubles will be performed at Llanymynech Village Hall from November 25-27 at 7.45pm. Numbers are limited, so please make sure you buy early to avoid disappointment.

Tickets are available online from Ticket Source, from Llanymynech Village Shop, or from Marg on 01691 830558.