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The Dilys Guite Players Season of Plays 2009/2010
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Players Angels
14th - 19th December 2009
Written by Amanda Whittington
(By arrangement with Alan Brodie)
Directed by Jenny Derbyshire

From the author of Be My Baby and Ladies Day...

It's 1954 and all the girls want to work at Players, the biggest and best employer in town. The Players Angels have a good wage, a tobacco allowance and quite a reputation. On the factory floor, Cyn dreams of being a beauty queen and Vee adjusts to married life. Widowed Glad and her young supervisor Bill have a secret of their own. When Glad's young niece Mae comes to work at Players, they won't be able to keep it for long. Based on real stories of life in the tobacco industry, Players Angels is a celebration of working women and was adapted as a BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour serial.

"It is the recollection of good times now distant - comradeship, simple
pleasures, support for those in trouble - which makes this a joyous evening as well as a
very funny one". The Stage

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The Weir
22nd - 27th February 2010
Written by Conor McPherson
Directed by Kay Massey

The play opens in a rural Irish pub with Brendan, the publican and Jack, a car mechanic. These two begin to discuss their respective days and are soon joined by Jim. The three then discuss Valerie, a pretty young woman from Dublin who has just rented an old house in the area. Finbar, a real estate agent, arrives with Valerie, and the play revolves around the four men who vie for her attention. After a few drinks, the group begin telling stories of Irish folklore. After each man has told a story, Valerie tells her story: the story of why she left Dublin. Valerie's story is melancholy and true, and the men become softer, kinder, and more real. The play is typically Irish, sad and sweet, and is as much about lack of close relationships and missed connections as it is about anything else.

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Secondary Cause of Death
26th April - 1st May 2010
Written by Peter Gordon
(By arrangement with Josef Weinberger)
Directed by Jo Foster

The sequel to 'Murdered to Death' which was performed to a sold out house by the Dilys Guite Players last season.

Inspector Pratt arrives at Bagshot House with grim news for Colonel Craddock but that's just the beginning. Who is the strange Polish Count? Is Henrietta really an army Captain? And where does the thespian Longfellow fit into the scene? These are just some of the characters who make Pratt's return a chaotic nightmare as the bodies pile higher and higher! 

If you thought that Murdered to Death was funny, just wait until you see this one...