Bishop Auckland Theatre Society is set to make a splash with its production of Derek Benfield’s “Fish Out Of Water”.
The comedy follows recently widowed but outspoken Agatha Hepworth and her down-trodden sister Fiona Francis on their first foreign holiday and shatter any hope their fellow guests had of peace and quiet.
Agatha’s insistence on communal games, community sing-a-longs and generally invading the other guest’s privacy is bad enough but when coupled with late flights, double booked rooms and every other trauma possible on a package holiday you have a recipe for holiday disaster. The play, which was originally set in the lounge of an All Inclusive resort hotel on the Italian Riviera has been relocated to the South of France due to the casting of new member Charles-Elie Gorin as hotel manager and lady-loving lothario Marcel Matin. Charles, who is living in Darlington and working at PPG Aerospace in Shildon was born in Brittany and spent his childhood in Nantes before attending Engineering college in Lyon. He is visiting Britain for one year on a government led scheme which allows young people to live and work in a foreign country.
“Fish Out Of Water” is showing at Bishop Auckland Town Hall from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th October at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £7 or £6 for concessions. Booking available on 01388 665177
