There has been a distinct lack of interest from the Grenfell community with only a few familiar faces showing up for the last two play readings at the Rose Street Theatre. There will be a further play reading this coming Monday evening at the theatre at 7.30pm and if there is still not enough faces to fill most of the roles, then the production will definitely be cancelled. There are several male roles up for grabs aged between 20 and 60 years of age, so there is plenty of scope for any budding actor out there who wants to tread the boards with a great script. Some of those roles involve only a few lines – so you don’t have to be an experienced thespian to enjoy yourself. There are also a few female roles available, especially for any younger woman who is interested in trying their luck in the theatre.

So come along next Monday evening and be part of a grand tradition that has seen the Grenfell Dramatic Society become the envy of much larger towns over the last fifty years. There are also some very experienced and well-regarded members of the society who are available to be mentors, especially to any inexperienced people who would like to become part of the great theatrical legacy passed down to all of us in the town.

This year’s proposed production is “You Cant Take it With You” - a great old 3-act comedy from the golden pre war era of Broadway, by two of the biggest names ever to grace the “Great White Way”, namely Moss Hart (of Rogers and Hart fame) and George S Kaufman.

The story line is built around the eccentric Vanderhoff family living in an apartment in New York, just around the corner from Colombia University in the years before WWII. All the action takes place in the living room but in this house the term is something of an understatement. The everyman-for-himself room would be more like it. The family consists of grandpa Martin Vanderhoff (who hasn’t worked for thirty years) and his family consisting of daughter Penelope Vanderhoff Sycamore (a “budding playwright”), her husband Paul Sycamore (who makes fireworks for a living) and their children, Alice (who works at a stockbroking firm on Wall Street and appears to be the only none-eccentric member of the family although she loves them all dearly), Essie (a wannabe ballerina in her late twenties) and her husband Ed (who makes candy and sells it to shops in the city).