‘Breakfast for One’/’The Romantic Lover’ - Spring 2007

This year, we departed from our tradition by presenting two one-act plays in one bill:

'Breakfast for One', by David Foxton, was a fast-moving comedy of mistaken identities, set in a flat in Paris in 1895. This is the home of Vincent and Yvette Signac. The lovesick Marcel Morison sneaks in, hoping for a glimpse of Marie Celeste, a cabaret dancer with whom he has been smitten at a nightclub the previous evening. The maid, Honorine, who is in fact also Marie Celeste, comes across him, and mistakes him for the expected chimney sweep, but he doesn't recognise her. Cue for a riot of misunderstandings and double-entendre, involving Marcel, Honorine, and Claude, a drunken, thieving vagrant!

The other play 'The Romantic Lover', was, by contrast, a traditional Irish comedy, by Bernard J B McCarthy. Paud Mullane, a well-to-do farmer, has no interest in local girls since he has started a correspondence with Miss Gladys Green. This is to the annoyance of his sister Molly, who would like to see him married so that she can follow her own dream of joining her boyfriend in the States. With the help of her friend Katy Grady, who is in love with Paud, they hatch a plan to help him see the light, but Paud is too clever for them...

Both plays were directed by Maggie Frame O'Neill.

Unfortunately, we only seem to have photographs from 'Breakfast for One'.

Photos from the performance
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