Plays, Ploughmans and Pizzazz

~~Sway this year had a great idea to do something a little different with two plays, singers and food, and what a great evening it turned out to be. Director John James has worked well with a very good cast.
The first play was Early Blight by Jean McConnell, which was about an over powering mother that has taken over her daughter’s life by getting her to always be there and look after her. Set on the prom mother keeps complaining about all sorts of things, as her daughter just sits there listening, after returning from home with her knitting, its then her turn to have a go back. Having accidentally knocked over a vase to find it contained letters from a boy friend that had emigrated some years before asking her to join him, mother thought it best not to show her as for her selfish reasoning that she would be left on her own. Needless to say it was just the push the daughter needed to leave and make her own life. Well played ladies.
We then had a selection of songs from the shows sung by Milford Musicale, solos and duets nicely sung by everyone made for an enjoyable section to the programme. The group came across very well and you could tell they and the audience enjoyed themselves.
During the interval we had a very nice ploughman’s served by the company members.
The second half opened with another play Mother Figure by Alan Ayckbourne. This play was mainly about Lucy a mum at home looking after her children while her husband Harry works away. She is on her own all the time with the children and hardly sees’s anyone. Her neighbour Rosemary calls round because the husband can’t get through on the phone as she won’t answer it.
She ends up talking to the neighbours Rosemary and Terry just like children and makes them sit down and have a drink before they are allowed to leave, she helps them with their problems but can’t seem to help herself with her marriage problems by just talking to her husband as he is always away. Well cast and very enjoyable.
All in all a very good night.  

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