Players get the message from Mr McGillivray [Edition 3]
0 Comments | Cornish Guardian; Truro (UK), Jul 21, 2010
A HUMOROUS message from a famous playwright to the Polruan Players is to be included in the programme of their summer performance.
Earlier this year, the Polruan Players approached Michael Palin for a personal message for the programme for their performance of his play The Weekend.
They have now received a typically witty response to a similar request made to David McGillivray, the joint author, with the late Walter Zerlin Jnr, of their well-known series of Farndale plays.
The players now have something for the club’s forthcoming summer season play programme, We found Love And an Exquisite Set Of Porcelain Figurines aboard the SS Farndale Avenue.
“I hear the Farndale ladies are appearing in Cornwall” McGillivray wrote in reply. “Why, oh why? These well meaning but incompetent amateur actresses are a complete embarrassment.
Britain’s Got Talent? Not down Farndale Avenue.”
“Walter Zerlin Jnr and I first came across the ladies in Edinburgh in 1976 and I find it hard to believe they are still performing their dreadful plays nearly 35 years later. All I can say is that if you have the misfortune to be in the audience for their Cornish effort, be prepared for an evening that is going to be nothing short of laughable. Sympathetically, David McGillivray.” The hilarious blog which McGillivray threw in for good measure will also be printed in the programme.
This light-hearted play relies heavily on visual and sound effects, including an underwater scene involving fluorescent painted fishes flashing across the stage
porcelain figurines