Current CADS production

Virtual (Sur)reality

 

We've just presented our entry for the 90th Welwyn Drama Festival which runs until 24 May. It's a brilliant and surreal one-act play called Virtual Reality written by the late, great Alan Arkin. Two strangers meet in an empty space, having been told they're to do a job. While they wait, one of them suggests they do a dry run of the equipment (which hasn't yet arrived). The other is initially reluctant to take part in this pantomime but is eventually persuaded. As they two of them go through the list of wholly imaginary items, the situation starts to become more and more bizarre and ends up in an explosive climax..

There are only two characters - Lefty, played by Patrick Key, and De Recha, played by Michael Young who also directed the piece. There's practically no set, no scenery and no props and the play relies heavily on the audience's willingness to buy into the weirdness of their situation.

The CADS production was performed as the third of three plays on the opening night of the festival, Monday 19 May, and received some good audience reactions and a great review from adjudicator Tristan Marshall. The awards ceremony for the festival takes place on Saturday 24 May and tickets are still on sale for that evening via Ticketsource.

We hope to bring  the show to a Royston audience later in the year so watch this space!