WHEN the curtain goes up on Emley Drama Group next week, there will be one person on everyone’s minds.
The cast of the latest show from this close-knit company should have included Marie Gill, the group’s longest serving member.
Sadly Marie died recently and the comedy show that she should have been on stage with will now go on without her.
Marie was with the group since it began in 1973. She played more than 40 roles on stage with Emley and fulfilled many others off stage to help the society that she loved.
The company pays tribute to this much loved and much missed member of its company in the programme for next week’s show, Women On The Verge Of HRT, a fun and feisty comedy that the actors are certain Marie would have loved.
The show opens on Tuesday at Emley Methodist Church Hall and runs each evening until Friday at 7.30pm.
The show is written by Olivier award-winning playwright Marie Jones and the music is by Neil Martin.
It’s a warm hearted comedy described by one critic as “Menopausal Women Behaving Badly”.
So expect to see mature groupies on a weekend away to see their singing star idol confront fears and problems about being middle-aged.
Ian Stevenson directs a company of Emley regulars in a comedy that promises to send audiences home flushed with pleasure.
And as ever with Emley, don’t forget to pick up a programme. It’s packed with “stars” you’d never expect to see play a village hall and is every bit as much fun as the show.
