NODA North West News

Congratulations to everyone on a good show including many members of the society who forsook the lure of the stage to allow the younger members breathing space to stage an energetic production. A creditable act indeed for many people who have given untold years of service to maintain high standards at their society. Excellent scenery along with fresh, bright costumes by their own designer, plus a talented combo, provided a background for a lively cast who made the show zip along. Some rather "over exaggerated posing" by the leading ladies, presumably to impose the twenties idiom, distracted sometimes from excellent performances especially from Adrienne Wormald as Polly Browne. The French dialogue was maintained throughout by Madame Dubonnet, played by Irene Bowers and Hortense, played by Nicola Worrall, but I thought Hortense could have been played a little more "flightily". Finally, the parts of Lord and Lady Brockhurst, played by Bill and Margaret Steel, admittedly more senior members of the cast, were outstanding. Glyn Neary