FORMER Evening Post sports reporter John Lomas takes
on his first principal role for the Beeston-based Riverside Drama
Company in its tenth anniversary production Comic Potential.
John, of Long Eaton, teams up with leading lady Liz O'Hara, a teacher at
Bramcote Church of England School, in Alan Ayckbourn's thought-provoking
comedy.
Directing a cast of 18 performers who appear in the play, the largest
number to take the stage in one production for Riverside, is Martin
Holtom who was last seen playing train-spotting fanatic Gus Gascoigne in
the one-man play Anorak of Fire.
Set in a television studio in the near future, the action in Comic
Potential centres on the making of a daytime soap opera in which robots
or actoids are programmed to act out the roles without the aid of
scriptwriters.
Into this situation comes the idealistic Adam, nephew of the millionaire
station owner who has designs on writing his own comedy, and on the
beautiful android Jacie Triplethree with whom he falls in love.
Appearing
Adam, played by John Lomas, and Jacie, Liz O'Hara, find that the line
between actoid and human has lessened and in a bid to be a 'normal
couple' the pair run off together bringing obvious problems.
Amongst the colourful characters involved in Comic Potential are Pat
Tuffin who plays burned-out director Chandler Tate, Janet Bradbery as
sanctimonious regional director Carla Pepperbloom, Jo East and Pam
Chamberlain (studio assistants) and Keith Coxon as a wheelchair-bound
megalomaniac TV company owner.
Also appearing in the Ayckbourn comedy will be Bob Baron, Rob Osmond,
Liz Turner, Donna Chinn, Paul Norris, Emjay Sadler, Holly Wilcockson,
Moya Magee, Pat Clarke and Rachael Meller.
Comic Potential is being staged at Long Eaton's Duchess Theatre on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 28, 29 and 30, at 7.30pm each
night.
Tickets priced £5 adults and £3.50 concessions may be booked on 0115
875 0506 or contact the theatre box office on 0115 972 9195.
For details about the drama group click on to www.riversidedrama.com
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