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Catch our captivating David Furlong as “Dr Frenchman” in ‘DON’T TAKE THE PITH!’ which opens TOMORROW at Drayton Arms Theatre!
The performance which is produced by Canonbie Productions will be on until Sunday 1st of June!
Get your tickets here:
https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/dont-take-the-pith
‘DON’T TAKE THE PITH!’ Artwork
‘DON’T TAKE THE PITH!’
A brand new jewel-heist – ghost story – farce!
Set in the year 1900 & Somerset Maugham, noted psychic Lady Susan Bloom & self-proclaimed ‘wit, rake and raconteur’ Lord Sebastian Hardcastle are summoned by The Crown to the colonial island of Not-Borneo.
(It’s not a million miles away from Borneo, but it’s somewhere you definitely haven’t been and so you’re entirely unqualified to criticise our depiction of non-Western European civilisations).
The talisman of the local tribe has gone missing – and the list of suspects is made up of a bunch of hilarious and excellently-defined characters: is it Lord Peter Meur, head of the British Outpost, or his wife, Lady Fleur de Meur?
Could it be an inside-job, orchestrated by powerful and drop-dead-gorgeous Headswoman of the local tribe – Adiratna?
Or her suspicious First Minister, her “No. 1” – Kanaka? The equally exotic Doctor Frenchman (pronounced Fronkmain), a guest on the island, with hidden motives?
Or in true unexpected-Christie-style – the unassuming servant, Maud Pauper?
OR – are things not quite what they seem?
(Yeah, probably that).