PERFORMED 2022
Play On! by Rick Abbot is about a small community group of actors staging a new play, Murder Most Foul, for the first time. The director is valiantly attempting to get the production ready for opening night. However, with opening night a mere four days away, the author decides to re-write the play, changing the actors’ lines and, worse still, adding a new character.
The cast of Murder Most Foul are having problems enough learning the original script, let alone learning any new lines and suddenly having to incorporate a new character. Even with the help of the stage manager/prompter and the sound and lighting technician, it seems as though the production is doomed! Anyone who has been involved in rehearsing a play will identify very strongly with the maxim “If anything can go wrong – it will.” Those who know little about the theatre will be enlightened and amused.
Play On! by Rick Abbot is about a small community group of actors staging a new play, Murder Most Foul, for the first time. The director is valiantly attempting to get the production ready for opening night. However, with opening night a mere four days away, the author decides to re-write the play, changing the actors’ lines and, worse still, adding a new character.
The cast of Murder Most Foul are having problems enough learning the original script, let alone learning any new lines and suddenly having to incorporate a new character. Even with the help of the stage manager/prompter and the sound and lighting technician, it seems as though the production is doomed! Anyone who has been involved in rehearsing a play will identify very strongly with the maxim “If anything can go wrong – it will.” Those who know little about the theatre will be enlightened and amused.
