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A TASTE OF THEATRE:

A SMORGASBORD OF ONE ACT PLAYS

Hibiscus Memories: Rosa wants to keep the large Hibiscus hedge around her large
garden as a memorial to her late husband Jack who spent years in a Japanese
Prisoner of War Camp during WW2 and who survived partly because of the Hibiscus
leaves he was able to consume. Her son wants to develop the site, which is
worth mega bucks. Is a compromise possible? Will the hedges be torn up? Will
Rosa have to submit to her son’s wishes? The play ponders the ethics of the new
world versus the old.

Solemates: When a middle aged couple go backpacking around Europe it
is their feet that take the burden. The two pairs of feet, sorely tested by the
constant trekking, discuss their discomfort with each other and find a way to
ease it. By alerting their ‘owners’, Mary and Anthony, to the fact that they
were once in love and were soul mates, the feet hope to avoid the constant
pounding of pavements.

Delicious Delusions: Hannah, a middle aged Jewish woman lives in New York during the
nineteen thirties. Her one dream is that she will become the most famous Opera
Singer in America and she sets in motion plans for her debut at Carnegie Hall.
However, there are a few matters which stall her plans and which inhibit her
progress towards this ambition. Her story is one of pain, of love, of hope and
despair as she teeters towards the culmination of her desires. Will she at last
be free to sing her favourite Operatic arias to a huge admiring audience?

Jimmy: Jimmy has lived in the poor area of Glasgow all of his life,
working for a petty gangster for over thirty years. Now they are tearing down
the tenements where he and his late wife Annie have lived since they were
married. Jimmy is not happy about having to move but it is the nineteen
sixties, a time of change and Jimmy is about to make the biggest change to his
life as he farewells his boss and leaves behind all he has
known.

Babies: Since they were at University together Shirley and Max decided
not to have any children, on the grounds that the world is already
overpopulated. As a married couple they have stuck to this agreement but as
Shirley approaches forty she changes her mind about having a baby. Tension
abounds and while Max sticks to his principles Shirley has to find a way around
it, which questions Max’s inflexibility and his wife’s determination.

Mrs B and Bob Dylan:Mrs Babbington has always been a fan of Bob Dylan and his music.
Stuck in bed while recovering from a heart attack she remembers times spent
with her husband and of listening to her favourite Dylan song, Blowing in the Wind. In
spite of her condition she unrepentantly partakes of gin and longs for a bacon
and egg breakfast, while knowing they are not at all good for her health.

Well, You Can’t Win ‘Em All:Pam and Anna are two middle aged women from entirely different social backgrounds, yet when having hair and beauty treatments they share exactly the same hatred of wrinkles.
Together they complain about the way women are treated as they grow older and
their looks fade. They confide aspects of their lives with each other and in so
doing reach a better understanding of who and what they are, even if they have
to live with the wrinkles.