Tuesday night went very well with a respectable sized village audience for the premier performance of our two ODN festival plays.

Mediocrity by Anton Robert Krueger and on Wednesday and Canary Cage by Diana Raffle were well received and things bode well for next week at the Unicorn Theatre.
I did say my last blog was the final reminder about the festival but I lied. So once again please note ODN festival starts 4th June and runs until Saturday, 9th June at the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon. Curtain up at 7.30pm every night. Tickets, £4 each.

The Canary Cage is on Wednesday at the Unicorn and the audience will be treated to an excellent performance by Andrea Spencer, Sarah Curran and Jennifer Haywood. Susi Dalton directs the play and it should be noted that Susi and Andrea were part of the team that won the Colin Dexter award at last year’s festival. Think on.
Mediocrity is staged on Tuesday and contains some wonderfully funny moments many of them featuring the inept nay-crooked doctor played with much enthusiasm by John Hicks-priceless. Mike Lacey directs the piece, and modesty forbids me to list the rest of the cast. So there we have it.

Life will soon return to what passes for normal and drama club nights will return to the pursuit of finding our next play. Other important questions have to be answered too-where shall we go on our weekend away? Where shall we have our annual dinner? What happens to your lap when you stand up? Why is there only one Monopoly commission? Things like that.

The weekends here, I close down my computer for the last time this week as steam starts to emit from the old machine (It’s no job for a grown man now is it?) and prepare for the arrival of my grandson, I know, I know I don’t look old enough to have one……….yes …all right…..perhaps I do…..anyway as sun sets on what has been a strange week ………I look forward to next weeks festival and hope to see many of my readers, well two out of the three, Tuesday night.