Lettice and Lovage
by Peter Shaffer
16–19 February 2011
Hayes Village Hall
Wednesday – Saturday at 7.45pm
Box Office: 07905 210718
Tickets: £7
Lettice Douffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable enthusiast of history and the theatre. She is a tour guide at Fustian House ‘one of the least stately and least interesting of Britain's’ stately homes. Lettice begins to embellish its historical past and her lecture gains theatricality and romance as it strays from the facts. Lotte Schoen, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, is not impressed or entertained by these uninhibited history lessons. She fires Lettice, but gradually becomes fascinated by her unusual past, her romantic world-view and her refusal to accept the mediocre and the second rate. The two women forge an alliance to awaken their fellow citizens to the dreariness of modern life.
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