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The last two weeks of this month see the club’s first production for the year, a hilarious farce called ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ by Ray Cooney, very well directed by David Murphy.

As with all good farces, it has a simple but really funny plot. Tom (played with great fun by Will Motherway) and his wife, Linda (the ever-lovely Audrey Sheehan) are dying to adopt a baby, and are awaiting a visit from the scary Adoption Agency Inspector, Mrs Potter (the amusingly horrible Mary Curley). However, the loving couple’s plans are totally thrown by the sudden and unnecessary arrival of Tom’s two scheming but idiotic brothers, Dick and Harry.

Dick is a livewire Delboy-type, played by Sean Tobin, while the part of Harry sees James Hyde perfectly cast as a complete thicko. All sorts of silly shenanigans ensue as these two introduce illegal substances, smuggled immigrants (Tomás Roche as the doting and dotty Andreas, and Emer Martin as the gorgeous peasant daughter, Katerina), dead bodies and a criminal mastermind from Albania (the gun-wielding Martin Sheehan). Everything combines to nearly derail Tom and Linda’s desperate plans to start a family. Suitable for all the family, the show also throws in a bullying but clueless cop, ably played by John Roche.

The whole club has swung behind the production. Backstage management is by Sarah Allen and Anne Gough (in from Conna for her first outing with Tallow drama), with set construction by James Aherne, Mike Hunt, Peter Sealey and Jack Aherne. Costumes and props are, as ever, very well put together by Frances Tobin and Judy Burton.

On Thursday to Saturday nights, January 21-23 and 28-30 (at 8.15PM), ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ includes free refreshments as always, a great raffle and much laughter. You don’t need to book, as tickets will available on the door. So just forget your post-budget, deep-winter, icy-roaded blues: come along and enjoy a fun evening out!