All five plays at a discount price. Come to one program when you like and, at the front desk at the theater, get a bonus ticket for the second program, your date and time of choice. The dates, times, and details of each performance are listed below.
"Alan Bennett is theatre's most treasured National Treasure." —
The Independent (London)
Waiting for the Telegram, played by veteran San Miguel actor Lola Smith, is a touching story of the inner life of an astute, somewhat cynical woman in a nursing home, as a newly formed attachment for one of her caregivers awakens regrets for paths not taken more than seventy years past. The piece, an adaptation of Bennett’s original version, is set in New York. Program 1, Sept. 20 & 22, 2:00pm, Sept. 21 & 23, 7:00pm
The Hand of God, played by Henrietta Weekes, follows the machinations of Celia, an antiques dealer who brazenly aids elderly neighbors for the sole purpose of acquiring their treasures on the cheap when they die. When one of her neighbors turns sickly, her carrion crow-like patience is thwarted by the arrival of a neice who turns the estate over to an auction house and leaves her with a small box of bric-a-brac, the value of which she assumes is minimal. Ah, if she'd only watched the telly! Program 1, Sept. 20 & 22, 2:00pm, Sept. 21 & 23, 7:00pm
Bed Among the Lentils, played by Phoebe Greyson, portrays Susan, an alcoholic vicar’s wife with acerbic wit, who distracts herself from Geoffrey, her ambitious, insensitive husband by having an affair with Mr. Ramesh, an Asian grocer. Finally on the wagon, she grudgingly attributes her newfound sobriety not to the grocer, but rather to "Geoffrey's chum, the Diety, moving in his well-known mysterious way." Program 1, Sept. 20 & 22, 2:00pm, Sept. 21 & 23, 7:00pm
In Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet, played by Maggie Bunce, a middle-aged store clerk seeking solace from the day to day drudgery of caring for her disabled brother, finds herself unwittingly drawn into a decidedly unorthodox financial arrangement with her chiropodist, who plies her with shoes that she can wear to “mark time on his bottom.” Program 2, Sept. 20 & 22, 7:00pm, Sept. 21 & 23, 2:00pm
A Woman of No Importance, played by Phoebe Greyson, is a study in self-deception and the frailties of human nature. Margaret (Peggy) Schofield reigns over the photocopier in a large office complex where she has carved out a comfortable niche. When sudden illness confines her to a hospital, she loses no time in convincing herself that the responsibilities she creates and assumes make her indispensible to the staff. Persistently cheerful, blind to the feelings of others and, at heart, terribly lonely, Peggy is simultaneously comedic and tragic. Program 2, Sept. 20 & 22, 7:00pm, Sept. 21 & 23, 2:00pm
