Wyrd Sisters

The beauty of this play I had no idea what to expect, Terry Pratchett’s work can be a bit weird but to my surprise I found this play rather amusing and I really enjoyed it. Based on a William Shakespeare’s Macbeth the play had three witches, a wicked Duke and Duchess, the ghost of a murdered king and numerous other characters.

Granny Weatherwax was played by Emma Jarvis and what a wonderful job she did playing this character, her two sisters Nanny Ogg played by Ellen Elliot and Margrat Garlick played by Kayley Warden and what a trio they made, three individual characters but their chemistry and comedy timing was very good.

Duke Felmet played by Jason Fleming was so convincing in this role, and I enjoyed him firstly scratching his hand then using a scrubbing brush and then a cheese grater to get rid of the itch, his partner Lady Felmut played by Wendy Warden showed a more serious side to her part which worked ever so well with the Duke. Fool played by Craig Norendal was loved by the crowd his jokes were sometimes that corny they were funny but were delivered very well.

When being on stage its not always about your lines and how big or small a part can be but watching King Verence played by Gavin Dodd, showed how well you can come across to the audience especially with his timing on stage and face expressions which were so good.  

I must mention Ripley Steele who after over 50 years doing theatre was still strutting his stuff on stage and likely to carry on for a long time yet.

I could carry on mentioning all characters, but I would run out of time, but I would like to say you all must be so proud of what you achieved.

The show was well directed once again by James Last with his two Assistant Directors Simon Armstrong and Tracy McOuat and well done for bringing something different to the area but i think the funniest part of the night fell to James Last who lost his wig which fell onto the front row floor.

Lighting was very good, but I must congratulate Simpie and his stage crew for using the turntable on stage which looked so good and effective which meant the play lost none of its plot due to scene changes.

It was just a shame there was not much of an audience, but what was in the theatre made their voices heard and hopefully word of mouth will get some extra bums on seats for the last two performances as it does deserve a full audience.

Well done everybody.

Jim Morgan

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