Every year, in the spring and the autumn, Broughton Dramatic Society puts on a play at the village hall in Broughton, near Brigg, in North Lincolnshire (DN20 OJR).
They perform comedies, farces, contemporary, and historical plays. They have been established for 75 years.
On Thursday 24th, Friday 25th and Saturday 26th October at 7.30pm, they are staging Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn.
Confusions is a set of five interlinked playlets set in the 1970s. Each play deals riotously (but with sharply pointed undertones) with human eccentricities and the dilemma of loneliness.
An isolated mother is subsumed by childcare. Her travelling salesman husband tries to chat up young women in a Northern hotel. In the hotel restaurant, we witness a fate-fraught dinner encounter. We are then transported to a summer fête, which goes hilariously wrong. The final playlet observes a bunch of strangers in a park, each locked into their own reality.
Confusions is occasionally dark but always funny! Tickets cost £8.00 and include free refreshments and a raffle. They are available online at www.broughtondramaticsociety.co.uk or from The Rabbit Hole Bookshop, Brigg, on the door, or by calling 07534 017296.
Give them a try – you will be pleasantly surprised!