2009 LGP 'It Runs in the Family'

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Lacey Green Productions “A Rolls-Royce of a farce” By Peter Brookhouse

“My glasses steamed up with laughter” These are just two of the critics’ comments about our next production, “It Runs in the Family” by Ray Cooney. This full length play is an incredibly funny farce set in a hospital. It played to packed houses in London's West End in the early 1990’s and is LGP’s next play for the Village Hall at the end of November.

Ray Cooney is a master of farce writing and “It Runs in the Family” contains all the necessary farce ingredients. To give you a flavour — Dr David Mortimore is about to address a neurologists convention, which will probably earn him a knighthood. While putting final touches to his speech some chickens (from his past) come home to roost. Events are complicated by the presence of a police sergeant, a wandering senile patient, an assortment of matrons (real and otherwise), a syringe full of tranquiliser and costumes for the hospital pantomime.

The play is set in the period just before Christmas. So what could be better than to see a performance of this play as LGP’s celebration of the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Millennium Hall? There will be our normal dinner theatre performances on Friday and Saturday, November 27th and 28th at 8pm. Tickets are priced £19.

Plus, to accommodate all those who would like to have come to our plays in the past but couldn't get in, there will be an extra performance on Thursday, November 26th, For, practical reasons we cannot provide dinner with the Thursday performance but the usual bar will be open. Tickets for Thursday are priced at £8.

So far in 2009, LGP has chosen to support The Mary Dolly Foundation as our charity. This young, Bromley-based charity was founded in memory of Mary Dolly. She selflessly gave of her time and energy to help those who were less well off. Today the foundation helps and supports children and young people in need. They do this by providing one-to-one counselling in schools; they provide play therapy, drama therapy and art therapy and they help support families through stressful times, in order to prevent the disintegration of the family unit. In addition, the Mary Dolly Foundation also aims to help elderly people who may be cut off from basic services and the community in which they live.