The Classic Comedy of Cricket, Chaos.....Cakes

Whilst there's little in this play that could be regarded as genuinely tragic, it is a play in which the comedy derives to a great extent from the inability of individuals to see themselves  for what they are.......we as the audience can take delight in watching such characters meeting their nemesis in some form or other as a result of their own inadequacies, acting as viewers to a series of mini-tragedies which assume far greater importance in the lives of those affected.

In other words, of course, this is a play about people we all know in some form or other. Perhaps not specifically in the confines of a slightly worn cricketing pavillion, but in any number of other settings individuals such as these are around us all the time to varying degrees. All this combines to create a comedy in which we can sit back, laugh at the inadequacies of others - and perhaps feel the mildest discomfort at moments of self-recognition.....

(Extract from the programme introductory notes by the Director, Alisdair Baker)

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Some of the cast from "Outside Edge". L to R - Paul Hillier, Peter Ayre, Bob Jackson, Nick Fletcher and Peter Breach.