Our next production is ‘See How They Run!’ a farce by Philip King.

It will be staged from Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th May at 7.30 each evening in the Village Hall,Main Street, East Bridgford.

Tickets are £5 (concessions £4 Tuesday and Wednesday only) and are obtainable from Michael Clarke (01949 20682), East Bridgford News, East Bridgford Post Office or any member of the group. East Bridgford Post Office or any member of the group.

Set in the Vicarage of Merton-cum-Middlewick the play tells the story of country life in the 1940s. Life passes by quite unruffled, even by the war, until Mrs Toop gets a visit from an old friend, whom she worked with on the stage.

He has been posted nearby to help guard a POW camp and decides to look her up. They go out to see a play they were both in a few years before but as the town is ‘out of bounds’for soldiers he dresses up as a vicar using Revd. Toop’s second-best suit.

The seeds are set for confusion when the village busybody, Miss Skillon, sees them running through part of the play, and mistakes Clive for Mr Toop.

As she tries to interfere she is knocked unconscious to be found later by the real Mr Toop.So the misunderstandings, mayhem and mix-ups begin.

Throw in a Bishop, a visiting vicar, an escaped POW and an army sergeant and you get a very amusing farce.. Oh yes, one of the characters does lose his trousers!