HATS off to H.A.T.S. (Hayswater Amateur Theatrical Society) for their performance of the Philip King farce I'll Get My Man at Hayswater Methodist Church, Davyhulme.
Bar standing on their heads, there seemed little the cast of nine couldn't do. They hid behind screens, ran up and downstairs, snogged unlikely partners and changed clothes in a flash.
The play is about a bumbling country vicar who, to escape domination by his bossy sister, advertises for a partner.
His congregation shoots up to nine when it is realised he is the uncle of TV star Ventureman.
John Partridge was the forgetful old buffer in question.
He waffled; his glasses fell off his nose and he practically suffered apoplexy when an eccentric correspondence (Anita Partridge) tried to seduce him - proof that John is a theatrical natural.
The domineering sister, Harriette Humphrey was played by Marjorie Read. She'll probably give me a piece of her tongue for saying so, but the sprightly lady is 80 years young. A person half her age could not have bettered her faultless performance.
Newcomer Ian Roe was Ventureman. He added freshness and versatility to a complicated role.
Anita Partridge also made her stage debut as the sixties equivalent of a spice girl, Pixie Potter. A natural pop singer!
The climax came at the end of the second act when fate brought the entire talented cast together in a mini masterpiece of farce.
Julia Taylor
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