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The uncut X-Beacon files August 2000
PaDS Aim For Order In November: Easy
As ABC?
“…and
don’t forget to put in Alphabetical Order!” The Most Organised One is in prime admonition mode. Nightmarish visions of the Great Annual Re-ordering of the Loft float through my mind. Or perhaps it’s the garden this time? Is everything to be dug up and re-organised in alphabetical order: antirrhinums, buddleia, cabbages, dahlias..? “er..
yes, dear. I’ll get round to it as soon as I’ve finished this Beacon article.” “Have
you been listening to a word I’ve been saying?” Now,
this is a tricky dilemma. Any hint that I might not have been listening to the
entire MOOnologue, of course, means certain death. But to claim otherwise risks
a challenge to repeat it verbatim, followed (when I can’t) again by certain
death. I decide to play for time… “I
got the gist of it, darling. Perhaps you could run over some of the details
again. What was that about the alphabet?” “Alphabetical Order! I said that you
should put in the Beacon article that PaDS will be doing Alphabetical Order by Michael Frayn on 16th 17th
and 18th November. And that director Alasdair King will be holding
open auditions at … on 8th 10th and 22nd
August at 8.00 pm. Then you can go on to say that Alphabetical Order is a brilliant comedy about a messy provincial
newspaper office run by a lot of messy men, who all get put in order by a
bright young woman. It is a wonderful play.” The
MOO drifts off in a reverie for a moment, lost in a world where she is in sole
charge of ordering the lives of thousands of messy men. “And
then you can mention the PaDS AGM, which will not be messy and which I shall be
organising. It’s on Thursday 21st September, 7.30 pm at the
Painswick Centre. Everyone is welcome.” “Even
messy men?” I venture. The
MOO ignores the interruption and continues briskly: “Right.
That’s the Beacon article written. Now, I’ve got a couple of jobs for you. I’ve
just had this idea about re-organising the garden…” Jack Burgess, Painswick Dramatic Society |
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