AFTER widespread  experience in Amateur Theatre and  Musical Theatre, Ann Robinson is making her directing debut.

Canterbury Players have invited her to direct their 65th anniversary costume drama – J. B. Priestley’s When We are Married.

It’s about three couples who married on the same day, and discover that, after 25 years, they are not married at  all.

The reactions of the men who all hold positions of authority, is particularly amusing.   The women are shamed because their children are born out of wedlock.

Even today, people will appreciate the irony.

Ann said:   “My problem is that there are 14 people in it and we have a very small stage.

“We have fitted in a chaise longue and a settee plus an extra chair but there is no room for a grand piano.    The conservatory is at the back rather than the side.”

The costumes have been borrowed from other societies but Ann is particularly grateful to Janet Reidsma from Altrincham Little Theatre, who has lent the wigs..

“I have seen productions where the costumes are wonderful and the wigs dreadful,   Janet has dressed them beautifully.”

Ann struggled to find someone to be the organist.

 “I eventually got Grant Hines from the Edgefold Players who had just done the play.


“He couldn’t rehearse until the beginning of November but knows the part.  He is over six foot tall.   He is lovely and lives in Urmston.
 
She says the message is “Pride comes before a fall”

 *  The play is at Brook Road Methodist Church, Flixton from 25 – 28 November. Telephone 0161 748 8403 for tickets.