#SMASHANDGRAB PROGRAMME | ELEVEN 80 PRODUCTIONS

FIFITY AND NIFTY BY BEVERLEY GREEN 

FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER & SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER 

“Fifty and Nifty” is a coming of age comedy with a difference.

“Fifty and Nifty” self-help group is a countrywide project, its aims to keep men and women in later life active with classes that will promote self-worth and wellbeing. Marjorie Pardoe however has other ideas. The self-appointed town matriarch runs the self-help group in her local town, but the help she gives is a matter of opinion, and the only opinion that matters to Marjorie is her own. Marjorie’s Group meet weekly, members come and go but Marjorie remains firm in her beliefs, on how you should behave in later life. Dancing, sex and general fun should be replaced with reading, needlework and setting out your funeral plan. Her comments are blunt but her tongue is razor sharp and she takes no prisoners in this awkward but hilarious look at ageism.

REMEMBER MAVIS DIXON

By Andrew Husband

Andrew Husband writes with great pathos in the story Remember Mavis Dixon, his work will have you laughing and crying, Roger is happy, well sort of happy, living in his care home then he comes face to face with someone significant from his past. Someone he’d rather had stayed in the past and whose existence will cause trouble for his son Roger who might just have a secret of his own and the past is sometimes better left…well in the past.