Details

Four One Act Plays about Actors. Humour Helps shows us Hilda, a melodramatic, suicidal actress who is finding it difficult to distinguish performances from reality; and what can be the most extreme action to play in performance? Why, to kill oneself. Which she attempts most unsuccessfully. Waiting for a Bus - we see the lines between reality and performance even more blurred as adulterous pair Jane and Tony rehearse a play about an adulterous pair who are directed by none other than the deceived husband! Does an actor have the skills to deceive almost anyone? This question is explored in the third play Acting Exercise when actor Rowan convinces a fuming Jeffrey that he is not having an affair with his wife! When is an actor not an actor? When they're dead. However, deceased thespians Howard and Lily Drummond still find comfort in reminiscing their long career in the theatre only to discover that they only ever really lived on the stage. A poignant swansong, that lets us remember their Last Things.

Creatives/Company

Author: Peter Barnes