HERE LIES JEREMY TROY, by Jack Sharkey, directed for Milnerton Players by Mari Mocke.

SYNOPSIS
This farce revolves around the main character, Jeremy Troy, who has led his wife, his boss, and his friends, to believe that he is a qualified lawyer. Because one of the partners in the law firm for which he works, has recently died, Jeremy is hoping that he will be promoted to take that person’s place. He has therefore invited his boss, Mr. Sven Ivorsen, who has never met his wife, Kathryn, to dinner.

Charlie Bickle, a friend whom Jeremy has not seen for a long time, turns up unexpectedly at Jeremy’s home, intending to talk his way into being accommodated there for a period of time. Charlie is an artist and he hires Tina Winslow, a model, to come over to Jeremy’s house to sit for a portrait.

Initially Jeremy and Kate are in and out of the house, and there is a merry mix-up before the important dinner-date, during which time it is suggested that the model pretends to be the wife, Kathryn, whom she has also never met, and to prepare the dinner for the boss. When Kate returns before dinner, she is totally confused by the situation and thinks that her husband has been having an affair with Tina behind her back. 

However, all’s well that ends well and within all the comedy action there is also a love story.

CAST REQUIRED

• JEREMY TROY: Outgoing, handsome – Early 30’s. (Large part)
  
• KATHRYN TROY: Jeremy’s wife. Prettily feminine – Late 20’s. (Large part)
  
• CHARLIE BICKLE: An old friend of Jeremy’s. Extrovert, artist – Early 30’s. (Large part)
  
• TINA WINSLOW: Undergraduate model. Petite & attractive, easily excitable – Early 20’s. (Large part)
  
• SVEN IVORSEN: Jeremy’s lawyer boss. Middle-aged,suave. Enjoys high society.(Medium part)
  

Backstage & technical people will also be required for stage management, props, costumes, lighting & sound design & operation, set building & painting and rehearsal prompt.

For more information please contact the director, Mari Mocke on (021) 556 2415 or 082 708 4794 or by  email

The Playhouse and Carnivals of the Heart presents Cinderella van die Kaap

The Playhouse and Carnivals of the Heart is proud to present the classic fairy-tale with a difference! Cinderella van die Kaap is the good old story complete with pumpkin, silver slipper and step-sisters! The action all takes place in Cape Tow's Bo-Kaap with an amazing support cast of diverse and crazy characters to laugh at and remember. This show is written and directed by Darryl Spijkers who has given us local productions such as The Little Mermaid, Snow White and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Cinderella lives on Tamatie Straat and her father is away on business. Her step mother Ellen Thriller is voted in as the new mayor of Cape Town. Her neighbour Bonita has a son who owes a gang leader some money which he can`t pay back. The action is all complicated by the arrival of a Nigerian family, a lottery win, a hungry bergie and the forced relocation of the residents of the street. Narrated by a group of worn-out street animals there are many surprises accompanied by 18 live musical numbers.

Suitable for the entire family, you will laugh and you will cry! Don`t miss this hilarious roller-coaster pantomime!

"It Runs In The Family", a classic farce by Ray Cooney, directed by Johan van der Merwe opens at the Milnerton Playhouse on 22 November 2013.

An hilarious farce set in the doctors' common room of a London hospital three days before Christmas. Dr David Mortimore is preparing his lecture for a conference of neurosurgeons that should guarantee him a knighthood and the hospital some badly needed funds when a former nurse bursts in with the news that their fling some 18 years and 9 months ago made Mortimore a father. The boy, emotionally highly strung and under arrest for drunken driving, is downstairs, desperate to meet his long-lost Dad.

In the midst of Mortimore's panic, deception, mistaken identities, double-entendres, puns and flapping doors fuel this high-octane comedy. Lies pile on lies, as Mortimore enlists his colleagues to deceive his wife, his boss, a police sergeant and even his new-found son. Sharp syringes, crashing wheelchairs and window ledge wrestling matches unfold as events begin to spin deliriously out of control.