Synopsis
Director's Note
Playwright Ron Aldridge has written a play that pulls at the heart strings while being highly entertaining. A singing and dancing group from the seventies meets up again three decades later in a nursing home, where one member Tony, is terminally ill. Sarah, who married the leader, Frank, in spite of being in love with Tony, is distraught at the thought that time is running out for them. As memories of their life on stage are invoked, their younger versions appear singing and performing the dance routines. Ultimately this is a feel-good show – full of pace, music and love, and its resounding message, “It’s never too late for love.”
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the heart.”
Cast
Featured
By Ron Aldridge
Directed by Rae McGregor
Season: 23 September – 8 October
The Frank Daniels Trio was once a successful singing and dancing variety group in the 1970s. Frank and his beautiful wife Sarah and the comic of the ensemble, Tony are a perfect recipe for an evening’s entertainment. Three decades later, when Sarah and Frank visit Tony at the nursing home, all the old emotional baggage comes to the fore, and there are flashbacks to the ‘good old days’ when we see them as their younger selves performing the song and dance routines.
“Aldridge’s new play is something of a minor masterpiece.” -The Stage