REVIEW:

Mistletoe Junction

Maskers Theatre Company

THE programme for this amiable Christmas show does not include a script writing credit (though co Directors Brian and Angela Stansbridge do accept one as Production Managers), so one likes to assume that the cast helped develop the dialogue and choose the seasonal songs, poems and readings that make up the bulk of the evening's entertainment, with highlights including Philip DeGrouchy, as the theatrical and fruity voiced Col Harvey Mainwaring, on tremendous form giving a reading as Scrooge, Maire Allen, very playful as talented tealady Beryl singing 'Santa Baby', the lovely backing dancing and harmonies she performs with Marie McDade, Bonnie Kaye and Jill Desborough's Celia Johnsonesque character (under the piano and musical direction of Rosa Longman) to the rocking guitar and singing of Eric Petterson, and the warm hearted playing of Kaye as Bonnie, the drama student of a group sharing a train station wait one night in 1957.

Ham Quentin

(COR)