Dinner Theatre – Penang Players Music & Drama Society

Four Play & Pastiche

Date/s: 22nd, 23rd November 2013

Synopsis

FOUR PLAY by Colin Smith

The setting is a perfectly ordinary evening with hosts David and Caroline and their guests Helen and Edward enjoying a dinner party.
A perfectly ordinary evening in suburbia until we realise that David is having an affair with Helen and Caroline knows all about it. Once the cat is out of the bag there is no way to stop the evening developing into a battle ground of recriminations, explanations and cruel home truths. Cleverly written by Colin Smith, the play is a study of modern adultery with a dash of dark humour.

PASTICHE by Nick Hall

Sir Peter has planned a dinner for two. His companion is Viola, a young chorus girl. But he's forgotten it;'s his wedding anniversary - his wife, Lady Alexandra come home early and aided by butler, Medford, turns Sir Peter's evening into shambles. The machinations verge on farce but the question is - will they succeed?

Four Play

Director: Jay Menom

Actors
Caroline.......Melissa Wong
David.......Adrian Chang
Helen.......Sangita Bhattacharjee
Edward.......Jezzdin Carr

Pastiche

Director: Jay Menon

Actors
Lady Alexandra.......Melinda Jacob
Viola.......Angelena Wright
Medford.......Jon Ong
Sir Peter.......Narinder Shadan

Four Play

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Pastiche

Delinquent Domestics

Date/s: 10th, 11th May 2013

Synopsis

As You Were by Jonathan Nestroy
Michael and Helena Hoffmann lead nearly woe-free lives until hired help enters! See the clashes and misunderstandings between them and their hired help providing a witty portrait of amorous chaos, evasion and duplicity that comes full circle.

Two Wits to Woo by John Kelly
When Winsome Manor encounters financial difficulties, the widowed Lady Winsome decides to sack long-standing help Joe and James. With illicit dealings to cover up, the two desperately attempt to prevent that. Little do they know that Lady Winsome has a few surprises up her sleeves!

As You Were
Director: Jay Menon

Actors
Adrian Chang.......Hoffmann
Saw Jin Jin.......Helena
Lim Yao Han.......Muffet
May Kung.......Josie

Two Wits to Woo
Director: Jay Menon

Actors
Lucille Dass.......Lady Winsome
Abdul Raqib Karim.......Joe
Philip Yeoh.......James

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Two Wits To Woo

A French Farce Feast

Date/s: 21st, 22nd January 2011

Synopsis

The Indifferent Commissioner by Georges Courteline
In this play we get a glimpse into the nightmare world of bureaucracy that has fossilized and is of no meaningful service to the public. As individuals pour into the police station they are met and dealt with indifference.

Stop Parading Around Stark Naked by Georges Feydeau
In this play we are exposed to the world of the rising politician and how that awareness transforms his relationship with his wife into one of nit-picking and self-righteousness. The feisty wife, however, is no pushover and she gives as good as she gets with a charm and insouciance that gets us to cheer her on.

AroundThe Indifferent Commissioner
Director: Jay Menon

Actors
Philip Yeoh.......Police Commissioner
Izwan Mohamad.......Tireur
Anna Tan.......Lady
Eric Yeoh.......Breloc
Henry Loh.......Floche
Ooi Eng Lye.......Lagrenaille
Mike Tan .......Garrigou

Stop Parading Around Stark Naked
Dircetor: Jay Menon

Actors
Murali Ram.......Ventroux
Shamila Ariffin.......Clarisse
Larren Heah.......Victor
Lim Yao Han.......Hochepaix
Henry Loh.......Romain de Jaival

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Stop Parading Around Stark Naked

Plaza Suite

by Neil Simon

Date/s: 13, 14th November 2009

Synopsis

A trilogy in 3 acts using the same hotel room.
Words like wedding bells, lovers reunited, foibles of marriage, anniversary, extra-marital affair, mistress and parent/child- relationship form the web that is Plaza Suite.

Act I
Mary Schneider.......Karen Nash
Craig Marcombe.......Sam Nah
Suzerian Francis.......Jean McCormack
Deva Dip Singh.......Waiter

ACT 2
Lim Yao Han.......Jesse Kiplinger
Shamila Ariffin.......Muriel Tate

Act 3:
Judith Chandler.......Norma Hubley
Randy Moss.......Roy Hubley
Eric Yeoh.......Borden Eisler
Cathelynn Lim.......Mimsey Hubley

Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

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Blind Date
Director: Joelle Saint-Arnoult

Actors
Fazdrina Ariffin
Maya Hanum
Eric Yeoh

Calling it Quits
Director: May Lim

Actors
Mary Schneider
Cathelynn Lim
Matt Holton

Inconvenient People
Director: Joelle Saint-Arnoult

Actors
Lucille Dass
Anna Tan
Ian Kerr

Love...Perhaps?

Date/s: 13th, 14th February 2009

Synopsis

Blind Date by Mal Anderson
At a restaurant , a couple, both in their twenties, meet for dinner for four, but it is now obvious that their friends have set them up. A blind date in the company of mutual friends now becomes an embarrassing situation for two almost near-strangers. Add to this frenetic waitress, and her inebriated husband-chef, who we think we hear but just don’t see!

Calling it Quits by Mal Anderson
On the advice of their respective solicitors, Joanie and Max, who are going through the process of divorce, meet in the cafetaria of a shopping centre. In this neutral ground, they endeavour to establish some idea of the demands being by each other.

Inconvenient People by Paul Hannah
Kim is a solicitor. His wife wants a divorce. His personal and domestic problems have reached such a point that he feels the only way out for him is to end it al here and now. He is about to take the decisive step towards oblivion when he is suddenly interrupted by the unwelcome appearance of a potential client, Robyn. Robyn was just passing by and decided to seize the opportunity to seek legal advice….

Blind Date

Calling it Quits

Inconvenient People

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Golf War Widows
Director: Joelle Saint-Arnoult

Actors
Lucille Dass.......Theresa
Mary Schneider.......Dotty
Fadzrina Ariffin.......Rachel

Overtones
Director: Joelle Saint-Arnoult

Actors
Chrystina Fong.......Harriett
Fadzrina Ariffin.......Hetty
Meena Arivananthan.......Margaret
Maya Hanum.......Maggie

A Matter of Husbands
Director: Joelle Saint-Arnoult

Actors
Mary Schneider.......Famous actress
Meena Arivananthan.......Young woman.

A Matter of Husbands

Date/s: 20th, 21st June 2008

Synopsis

Golf War Widows by Damien Trasler
The playwright captures hilarious and poignant moments share by three wives killing time when their husbands are busy with corporate golf tournament.

Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg
Harriet and Margaret present a cultured and refined image to the outside world, while Hetty and Maggie represent the wild, primitive desires of these same women. The play embodies a disparate part of the characters’ personality and is a unique convention celebrating womanhood.

A Matter of Husbands by Ferenc Molnar
When an earnest young wife suspects that her husband is having an affair with a famous and glamorous actress, she decides to take matters into her own hands and confronts her with the evidence.

Golf War Widows

Overtones

A Matter of Husbands

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Private Fittings

by George Feydeau

Date/s: 30th, 31st March 2007

Synopsis
Doctor Moulineaux falls for one of his patients and thinks he found the perfect place for a tryst only to be sorely disappointed. Filled with desperate entanglements, outrageous situations and mistaken identities, Moulineaux’s household is in an uproar.

Director: Adeline Ong

Actors
Sylvester Lim.......Etienne
Carmelita Xavier.......Yvonne
Robert Hunter.......Moulineaux
Philip Yeoh.......Bassinet
Lucille Dass.......Madame Aigreville
Natasja Sheriff.......Suzanne
Christopher Koh.......Aubin
Diemuth Plemsl.......Mademoiselle Pompinette
Meena Arivananthan.......Madame Herbert
Shelby Ng.......Rosa

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All In The Timing

by David Ives

Date/s: 13th, 14th January 2006

Synopsis

Sure Thing
Two people meet in a café and find their way through a conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas, Allowing them unlimited “re-dos” until the ‘perfect” pattern for falling love is found.

Words Words Words
Recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: what would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?

Variation on the Death of Trotsky
Shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber’s axe he’s discovered in this head

Sure Thing
Director: Alan Smith

Actors
Adeline Ong.......Betty
Khaz.......Bill

Words Words Words
Director: Alan Smith

Actors
Chong Chi-Ren.......Swift
Lucille Dass.......Kafka
Shadia.......Milton

Variation on the Death of Trotsky
Director: Alan Smith

Actors
Philip Yeoh.......Trotsky
May Lin.......Mrs Trotsky
Oh Chin Eng.......Ramon

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Table Manners

by Alan Ayckbourn

Date/s: 28th, 29th November 2003

Synopsis

The play portraits the relationship of three couples on a weekend in the same house. Table Manners details the amorous exploits of Norman, assistant librarian, whose one aim is to make the women in his life happy – these women being, as it happens , three sisters, with three totally different personalities.

Director: Adrian J. Chang

Actors
Robin Bradshaw.......Norman
Philip Yeoh.......Reginald
Lucille Dass.......Ruth
Mary Schneider.......Sarah
Deane Kana-Potaka.......Tom

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In Stitches

by Edward Dorall

Date/s: 22nd, 23rd November 2002

In Stitches: The Pizza and The Pau
Adapted from a play by Mathurin Dondo

Synopsis: A hungry man is said to be an angry man. But is he also quick thinking and wily?

In Stitches: Two Blind Men & A Donkey
Adapted from a play by Hugh Chesterman

Synopsis: This one act play was chosen for its comic element.

In Stitches: The Pizza and The Pau

Director: Lucille Dass

Actors
The Pizza and The Pau
Zaiton Bee.......Beggar
Ah Thooi.......Beggar
Shamala P.......Beggar
Adrian J Chang.......Beggar
Loh Tee Pau.......Baker
Tan Kuan Heng.......Baker
Rosie Loh.......Baker’s wife
Lucille Dass.......Baker’s wife

In Stitches: Two Blind Men & A Donkey

Director: Murali Ram

Actors
Rob Bradshaw.......The First Blind Man
Philip Yeoh.......The Second Blind Man
Abbie Neoh.......The Comedian
Qua Poh Lian.......The Donkey Driver
May Lim.......The Restaurant owner
Yeoh Seng Khoon.......The Donkey

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