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| The Company of Ten's Quartet |
THE SHOW must go on - despite the whiff from a clothes skip which is delivered to a retirement home for opera singers.
And when four of the residents bring themselves to open it, they find the smell is extremely off-putting.
What is in the clothes skip and why it smells like it does is one of the conundrums in Quartet by Ronald Harwood, the next production by the St Albans drama group, The Company of Ten.
Written by the author of The Dresser, Quartet is set in a home which is a place full of wit and humour and some droll reminiscing.
Into the cosy atmosphere comes a diva who immediately disrupts the equilibrium of three others.
The four residents are asked to perform the quartet from Rigoletto at the home's annual Verdi Gala Concert - but one refuses. The show must go on - and of course it does.
Quartet is being performed at the Abbey Theatre in Westminster Lodge from Friday November 10 until Saturday week, November 18. Tickets are available from the box office on 01727 857861.
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