by E F BENSON
Star Theatre 1, 145 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Hilton
June 28 & 29 @ 7.30
Matinee Saturday 29 @ 2.00
A FULLY STAGED PLAY-READING
Redoubtable spinster, Miss Elizabeth Mapp, has reigned supreme as social queen of Tilling - a picturesque seaside town on England’s south coast. Mrs Emmeline Lucas (”Lucia” to her friends) has done the same in her village in the Cotswolds. When Lucia decides to spend her summer renting Miss Mapp’s house in Tilling, the sparks begin to fly, and the quaint local residents are in for a hysterically funny battle-royal for social supremacy.
Edward Frederick Benson was the son of Queen Victoria’s Archbishop of Canterbury. He was also a prolific author of historical biographies and ghost stories. But he is, nowadays, best-remembered for his hilariously biting social satires, of which his six novels about Mapp and Lucia are the most enduring.
Cast includes Sheree Sellick, Julie Quick, David Roach, Stuart Pearce, Chris Bleby, Lyn Wilson
Directed by
ROB CROSER