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The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, March 9,1994 13 Bowmanville Drama Workshop Serves up Spirited Comedy with The Cocktail Hour by Lorraine Manl'redo People who attended The Cocktail Hour at Bowmanville High School last week were treated to an outstanding outstanding performance by four talented actors actors from the Bowmanville Drama Workshop. Their portrayal of a strained family reunion had folks laughing and thoughtful by turns. The comedy/drama by A. R. Gurney, Gurney, who also wrote The Dining Room, was about a part-time, middle- aged playwright named John, played by Randy Alldrcad. In John's latest script, he has, once again, dared to aim the spotlights squarely at his own upper-class family. This time, with unflinching accuracy, he exposes hypocrisy, hypocrisy, disdain for the working class, and suffocating dissatisfaction. He returns returns home seeking his father's approval approval to produce the play which he calls "The Cocktail Hour". Father Bradley, (John Amcsbury) on whom most of the play is focused, is adamant that the play not go on. He is desperate that his middle-class and unstable relations not be cast in full light. Mother Ann, played by Elizabeth Elizabeth Prower, is convinced, die play Engagement Announced Happy 1st Birthday wishes from om and Dad, Caroline and Richard citney, for Brandon March 1,1994. tanks to all our family and friends ho helped celebrate Brandon's spe- al day. will be indiscreet and loud. Sister Nina (Pat Marjerrison) is miffed at being being assigned a mere supporting role in the script. True to his nature, John certainly stirs things up during his visit. Father blows his stack, Nina is reduced to tears and Mother's big secret is coaxed out of her. Through all this domestic upheaval John's threatening manuscript sits on a coffee table at the front of the stage like a ticking time bomb. And while it never actually explodes, it blasts a hole through the family's starchy, civilized civilized lifestyle and its impact is felt by all. By the last act, both Nina and the unseen brother, Jigger, have taken John's advice and decided to follow their dreams of sailing and dogtraining dogtraining school, releasing themselves from conventional high-brow society and removing themselves from their parents' influence. John finally accepts accepts his father, and his father finally accepts John's need to write. Director Jean Sheridan admitted having mild doubts initially about put ting on an essentially plotless play that seemed to be one long conversation. conversation. But after receiving congratulations congratulations when the curtain came down on Friday she was enormously pleased with the audience reaction. The entire cast deserves credit for bringing the play and the characters to life. Form the very first scene, Randy Alldrcad and John Amcsbury proved to be masters at wringing a dramatic moment out of an extended comic ex change. Elizabeth Prower was tremendous as Ann, full of sensible and safe advice advice to her children not to pursue the uncharted course, and brimming with interesting philosophy on the differences differences between books and plays, and cocktail parties and cocktail hours. Pat Marjerrison, as Nina, earned excellent audience response from the first moment of her entrance. Her ob- vious annoyance at being overshadowed overshadowed in the play kept her frustration at the boiling point until she makes her decision to attend school in Cleveland. Cleveland. According to Sheridan, going from" the comic mood to sadness is infinitely infinitely harder to pull off than going from' sad to comic. 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