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GENEVA ENGLISH DRAMA SOCIETY3 May 2005 PLAYREADING - DINNER Lars is celebrating the fact that his pop psychology book "Beyond Belief" is now a best-seller. His wife, Paige, a self-confessed 'rich-bitch' decides to throw a dinner party in his honour, and carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion fittingly. Like any fastidious rich host, Paige anxiously checks with the waiter, whom she has employed for the occasion, that everything is prepared for the imminent arrival of her guests. It is only when she hands over his payment of £25,000 in cash that one suspects the meal may contain some rather nasty surprises. The guests at this feast of horrors are Wynne, a post-feminist dippy-hippy artist; Hal, a microbiologist who knows a great deal about deadly microbes; Hal's girlfriend Sian, a journalist and newsreader sexpot; and Mike, an uninvited guest who having crashed his van inthe fog calls at the house seeking the use of the telephone, and ends up staying for dinner. The meal is planned both to humiliate her husband and to offend the guests, and to help break the ice Paige has chosen such delightful dinner conversation topics as 'Murder', 'Truth' and 'Suicide'. Moira Buffini's black comedy reminds us that revenge is a dish best served cole, and at this dinner party it is served frozen. |