Penrith Players are set to bring Noel Coward's popular farce Fallen Angels to the stage this month. Running from 11th-14th February at Penrith Playhouse, the laugh-packed performance is being directed by Anne Crow.
Coward's play has many of the elements of a traditional farce, said Anne.
"At the start of the play, the audience is introduced to good friends Julia and Jane, who have much in common.
"Both of them had short but memorable affairs with the charming and enigmatic Maurice DuClos before their respective marriages. Both have reached the phase where their husbands no longer elicit any great amount of passion and both wake up one weekend with the presentiment that something unusual is going to happen later that day."
Their instincts are proved correct as Maurice is going to be in town that weekend while, as it happens, their husbands will be away playing golf together.
"Will Julia and Jane succumb to Maurice's charms once more and will their marriages and their friendship survive Maurice's sudden re-appearance?
"As befits a farce, the action is fast-paced, with an abundance of physical humour. The dialogue sparkles with witty exchanges. Most importantly, Coward endows his characters with psychological depth, making them much more than devices for delivering witty epigrams," Anne continued.
Since Coward was a distinguished composer as well as a playwright, music is a critical part of the play. Coward wrote the song Meme les anges (even the angels) specifically for Fallen Angels which helps draw the audience into the carefree and glamorous lives of the elite.
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