Wayfarers Drama Group

THEATRE-IN-THE-HUT, MILTON LANE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE
WEDNESDAY 30th APRIL 2008 - SATURDAY 3rd MAY at 7.30pm       

Tickets £7.00, Box Office 01934 515778

The Wayfarers Drama Group will be presenting Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious satirical comedy "Improbable Fiction" at the Theatre-in-the-Hut nightly at 7.30pm from Wednesday 30th April to Saturday 3rd May.

Directed by Barbara Jones, Alan Ayckbourn’s 69th play "Improbable Fiction" features an amateur writing group, where everyone has at least one book in them, but is having problems getting it out!

All the members are frustrated writers: Jess struggles with her historical romance; Grace longs to write a children’s book for her long-since grown-up children; nerdy Clem with his conspiracy sci-fi stories and penchant for abusing the English language; Vivvi, whose detective fiction mirrors her desperate search for a good man, and Brevis tries to adapt The Pilgrim’s Progress into a musical. Only the Chairman of the Writers group Arnold has published…Instruction manuals!

So with The Pendon Writers’ Circle in a bit of a rut, Arnold bravely suggests that they collaborate on a piece of writing, an idea that is received without enthusiasm.

With personalities clashing as loudly as the thunder outside, the meeting winds up, but as the storm suddenly plunges the house into darkness, so Arnold and the departing authors are plunged into their own fantastical, imaginary worlds.

In a stunning second act, the audience is exposed to a variety of stories that seamlessly weave into one another - poetic policemen, hapless girls in mortal danger and, Arnold’s mother abducted by aliens. An hilarious mix of word play, literary genres, clever pastiche and subplots until one is indeed left thinking:

If this were played upon a stage now I would condemn it as an improbable fiction
(Twelfth Night Act 3 Scene 4)

Content by Andy Jeffery

Well done to all involved in Improbable Fiction.  No doubt the hardest thing The Wayfarers have done with a costume nearly every two minutes!  All the technical crew had their work cut out with all the scene changes that happened as often as the costume changes.  Thank you to John and Frank for their hard work on the fabulous set.  Thank you to all.

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