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Confusions is a set of five interlinked one act plays intended for a minimum cast of 3 men and
2 women. Each play deals with human eccentricities & the human dilemma of loneliness.
Act One Theatre have elected to produce three of these delightful little plays for their next production. Play 1 deals with a mother unable to escape from baby talk. Play 2 a very funny
dinner encounter, and Play 3 a disastrous village fete.
Play 1: Mother Figure
Lucy is so wrapped up in her role as a Mother to her three children that she is unable
to relate to the world outside her home. Rosemary & Terry her next door neighbours
are worried that they haven't seen her for a while and pop in to check that she is
alright. They are treated like children by Lucy.
Play 2: Between Mouthfuls
Two couples are dining at an hotel. The dialogue is linked by the waiter who glides between
the two tables while the couples become increasingly argumentative.
Play 3: Gosforth's Fete
A village fete has been organised, or maybe 'disorganised' Everything goes wrong
from the weather to the tap on the tea urn getting on the 'ON' position with
disastrous results.
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Woodstock Ballroom becomes the vicarage of a small english sea-side village during the War.
Clive and Penelope had appeared in Noel Coward's "Private Lives" together before the war and Clive (now in the Army) tries to look up Penelope when he is stationed nearby. Penelope has married the local Vicar, who has problems of his own with the Bishop (Penelope's Uncle) and a locum due to arrive whilst he is away on church business. Clive is forced to change into the Vicar's clothes to avoid a scandel for Penelope when the local busybody arrives, and of course all Vicars arrive in the house together leading to enourmous confusion. The hilarity ratchets up several notches when an escaped German pilot also dresses up as a Vicar for a disguise, and a chase scene that would have done Benny Hill proud ensues!