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Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society  The Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Darren Funnell 28 October 2023 Wow. I never thought I would be going to bed with images of a goblin in a nut, with literary characters waving buttercup umbrellas singing ‘La La La’ to an unfinished song from ‘Pilgrim’s Progress -The Musical’, but there you go. Improbable Fiction by Alan Ayckbourn, that played this week at Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society, revolves around a group of aspiring writers who come together for their weekly meeting at the Pendon Writers’ Circle. As the evening progresses, the characters’ stories come to life in unexpected

Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society    Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst  Anne Waggott 27 July  2023 There is a big challenge when portraying well known, real-life people on stage in a fictional play – if you haven’t actually come across these people yourself, you’re likely to have seen an interpretation of them somewhere along the line, and so have preconceived ideas of what they should be like. For the actors who portray them, there is then an additional challenge in making the role their own whilst still capturing all the nuances and peculiarities of the original – especially when they are two

Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society  Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Darren Funnell   28 April  2023 Plays, like Bus Stop by William Inge, are so evocative of place in time and aspic values, that the best and only course is to treat the writing with care, craft and deliver a postcard from the past. This is what the Director, Brian Buck, does with great skill at Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society. A small-town Diner in the mid-Fifties somewhere west of Kansas City, with Eisenhower on the wall, and a snowstorm raging. The trope of stranded travellers in a remote and unfamiliar place works because