Meet Freda, Edie and Joy, three elderly ladies who are rebelling against a 1960’s world that has them locked up in an old people’s home. After escaping and taking to the sea, they find themselves in the village of Trotley, near Suffolk. An empty house is deserted and they ‘move in’, but it’s not long before a prospective buyer turns up – snowballing into a situation that requires quick thinking and an imaginative mind. These ladies are certainly not yet ready to be pushing up daisies!
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- Edie, Freda & Joy find an abandoned house
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- Freda, Edie & Joy
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- Joy ironing while Edie wonders who invented potatoes
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- Edie, happy with her new life
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- Joy, Freda & Edie read of their successful plan to fake their own deaths
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- Joy, Edie, Freda & Dr Hunter discuss a potential trouble with the new well
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- Joy, Edie & Freda panic while Dr Hunter insists on having the well inspected
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- Jackie joins Joy, Edie, Dr Hunter& Freda to find a place to stay
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- Joy, Edie & Freda question the new arrival
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- Joy shares her concerns about Jackie with Freda & Edia
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- Jackie sneaks up on Edie reading something she’s not supposed to
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- Edie tries to recover the diary from Jackie
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- Freda intervenes in Edie & Jackie’s predicament
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- Joy has to think quickly when Edie & Freda tell Jackie she knows the diary’s owner
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- Jackie wants to hear all about Joy’s past, while Edie & Freda worry about Joy’s imagination
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- Dr Hunter brings Joe Pollop down to get a sample from the well
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- Dr Hunter and Joe explain of the well’s potential pollution
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- Joy, Edie & Freda panic when told the old well might need to be reopened
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- Jackie teases Dr Hunter about Freda
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- Joe suggests secretly opening the old well
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- Joy explains her love of poetry to Jackie
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- Joe’s found something in the well!
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- Dr Hunter gets to talk to Freda alone
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- Dr Hunter asks Freda to go on a sailing date with him
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- Joy thrusts her latest composition upon Freda and Edie, but does it contain a hidden message?
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- Freda, Joy & Edie discuss the coffin marked “this side up with care”
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- Jackie panics after Freda ‘spots’ a mouse running out of the box she tried to open
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- Jackie shares her ‘lost’ uncle’s history to Edie, Freda & Joy
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- Freda explains the disposal plan to Joy
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- Joy, Edie & Freda get ready with a drink
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- Joe suddenly turns up to take the box but is turned away
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- Edie, Joy & Freda struggle loading the box onto Florence
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- Jackie calls a Policeman after finding out the truth
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- Jackie panics while trying to explain the story to the Policeman
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- Dr Hunter helps to calm Jackie down
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- Freda, the accused, returns, sending Jackie into fear and panic
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- Freda, Dr Hunter & the Policeman suggest Jackie isn’t herself
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- Dr Hunter explains to Freda he can help them
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- Dr Hunter reaches out for Freda to confess the truth to him
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- Freda & Dr Hunter find out the real story behind the house
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- Joe’s ‘light’ burden saves the day
Credits
Written by William Dinner and William Morum
Directed by Geoff Iles
Cast
Freda Grey — Sharon Wood
Joy Philpotts — Karen Sheppard
Edie Boggs — Josie Reed
Paul Vanderbloom — Craig Weaver
Dr John Hunter — Neil Baker
Jackie Jackson — Tasha Markham
Joe Pollop — Robert Wood
Sidney Collins — Rhys Johnstone
Policeman Dixon — Craig Weaver
Production Team
Lighting and Sound — Tom Stone
Prompt — Tony Winstone
Set Design — Geoff Isles and Neil Baker
Stage Manager — Robert Wood
Stage Crew — Rhys Johnstone
Front of House — Laura Sibley, Jasmine Sibley and Robin Iles
Refreshments — Jenny Fitzgerard and Anna Johnstone
Audio
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Note: This list shows all sounds downloaded to edit for this production – not all sounds may have been used in the final performance(s).
- S: sea waves atmo.wav by monotraum | License: Creative Commons 0
- S: waves and wind.mp3 by soundmary | License: Creative Commons 0