A real farce at Thame Players Theatre!

THAME Players will be presenting See How They Run, by Philip King, from Tuesday to Saturday May 3 – 7, at 7.45pm each evening, and at 2.30pm on the Saturday. Tickets cost £9, concessions £8, and are available from Spear Travels, Greyhound Walk, Thame, telephone 01844 217228, or online from www.thameplayers.co.uk.

See How They Run is a farce set towards the end of the second world war, in the living room of the vicarage in the village of Merton-cum-Middlewick. Penelope Toop, a former actress, is now happily married to the local vicar, the Reverend Lionel Toop, with whom she lives a life of married bliss – or would do if it wasn’t for the interfering Miss Skillon, churchgoer of the parish and a gossip.

When Lance-Corporal Clive Winton, an old friend of Penelope’s, stops by for a quick visit and they decide to watch a play by the local dramatic society that they used to belong to, things quickly take a turn for the worse. Confusion and assumption work in equal measure to turn a perfectly innocent excursion into a disaster. Then, when Penelope’s uncle, the Bishop of Lax, a clergyman from another parish, and a German soldier on the run from the nearby POW camp, arrive unexpectedly, complete chaos ensures.

The action culminates in a cycle of running figures and mistaken identities. Who is the real Reverend Toop? Where is Miss Skillon? What has happened to Clive’s uniform? Will the German POW get away with his dastardly plan? All will be revealed in See How They Run…