It's just the show to bring a ray of sunshine to a wet and windy February.
Pierrot Players’ production of Café Brosse opens at Shelley Village Hall on Wednesday (February 26).
It runs for four nights (from 7.30pm) and offers a glimpse of life in a busy cafe in sunny, rural France.
The play, by Jean McConnell, was written as a radio play before being adapted for the stage. And this lively comedy, centred on the private lives of George and Seraphine, the owners of the bustling Café Brosse, has proved a hit with audiences.
Anthony Clifton directs the show for Pierrot and has a cast which includes a number of familiar faces as well as some new company members.
Carol and Alan Huff are the kind of couple any theatre company would welcome with open arms. Pierrot Players certainly has.
Carol is from Huddersfield and taught music, speech and drama at Kayes College for 20 years. As a performer, she has appeared with societies in Huddersfield, Halifax and Brighouse.
“After living in Crete and then France for three years or so each I came back to England to spend more time with grandchildren,” said Carol. “Then the urge to tread the boards emerged again.”
And that is what she is doing next week while Alan will be behind the scenes running the show’s sound and lighting.
“I have never done sound and lighting before. You have been warned,” he said. “But I was stage manager for several of the shows that Carol produced at the old Venn Street Theatre in Huddersfield.
Alan’s main theatre experience has been on stage rather than off, in light opera shows in Bradford, Huddersfield and Brighouse.
The company is also welcoming Sheelagh Timm to its ranks. She is delighted to be back in amateur dramatics though she is happy to be cast in the role of prompter for this show rather than be on stage.
