Giving pause for thought

The latest spring venture for Burton Joyce Players is three one-act plays. They will be staged in the village hall from April 22 to April 24 at 7.30pm.

The first, directed by Alistair Dobb, is The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs — a Victorian horror melodrama giving the owner of a paw of a dead monkey three wishes.

The second, directed by Patrick McDonough, is Alternative Accommodation by Pam Valentine. Recently widowed, Anna is visited by her three middle-aged children, who have decided the family home must be sold and that she moves into a residential home.

The third, directed by Avril McCormick, is called What’s For Pudding? by David Tristram. Jack and Mary’s dull Saturday night is taken to zany, drunken heights after the arrival of Maureen, Ted and Dennis.