Absurdly singular persons on stage
"I know that tartan skirt" I thought, on seeing the Salterton Drama Club's webpage about their next production at http://www.saltertondrama.co.uk/current.htm And sure enough, the name of Jenny Roberts on the cast list of Alan Ayckbourn's play Absurd Person Singular was familiar, as was that of her co-star Simon Blissett. Not long after moving to the area I'd met this pair of what I imagined to be typical Budleigh Salterton eccentrics ready to make fools of themselves by raising money for charity on Comic Relief Day as described at http://exmouthroadies.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-saw-some-funny-things-today-on-my-way.html Since then I've realised that both are simply regular Drama Club members who enjoy making audiences laugh, whether on Budleigh Salterton High Street or in their Salterton Playhouse hidden down an alleyway off Station Road. The three-act Ayckbourn comedy which made its London début in 1972 was last staged by the Salterton Drama Club ten years ago...