"CHEEKY" COMEDY SET TO LAUNCH NEW SEASON AT CHESTER THEATRE

Final preparations are underway for the start of a brand new season of plays at Chester's longest-running theatre.

Chester Little Theatre, in Gloucester Street, Newtown will launch its 2023/24 season with the classic comedy "Dirty Dusting" by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood. The play will run at the popular City centre venue from Saturday 16^th - Saturday 23^rd September at 7.30pm with a matinee performance at 2,30pm on Saturday 23^rd September and will be directed for Chester Little Theatre by Margaret Bennett. 

Set in typical office block, the play centres around the humdrum lives of cleaners Elsie, Gladys, Olive and their supervisor Dave. When the ladies hear that they will have to re-apply for their jobs due to a cleaning agency being brought in, the chances of them all being re-employed seem slim but, thanks to an opportune phone call which turns out to be a wrong number, Olive comes up with a novel idea to earn them all a bit of money and before long, they find themselves running a saucy sex chat-line during their last working weekend.  Will it work, will they get found out? what could possibly go wrong?

Speaking about the play, Margaret Bennett said:

"Dirty Dusting is a poignant comedy about a group of warm-hearted ladies who have overcome adversity many times in their lives and will do so again. Although the premise is about a sex chat-line, we are left to imagine the adult sexual references on the other end of the telephone line, but expect plenty of comic, saucy references on the part of the ladies!"

Following on from Dirty Dusting, Chester Little Theatre will once again play host to Chester based  theatre company Against The Grain as they present phycological murder mystery "Agnes of God" by John Pielmeier in the Salisbury Studio from Thursday 19^th - Saturday 21^st October. 

Other season highlights include an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol from Saturday 11^th - Saturday 18^th November whilst visiting company White Cobra make a welcome return on Saturday 25^th November with  Lilies On The Land which tells the extraordinary story of the Women's Land Army during World War II.

The new season also includes Road by Jim Cartwright, Birthday Club by Phil Olson, a production of Samuel Beckett's classic play Waiting For Godot and a rip-roaring adaptation of The Hound of The Baskervilles. The theatre will also be playing host to the Cheshire One Act Drama  Festival in March 2024.

Full details of Dirty Dusting can be found at: 

www.chesterlittletheatre.co.uk 

...where tickets can be booked online.

Alternatively, contact TicketSource on:

0333 663366

Pictured - The cast of Dirty Dusting during rehearsals for the "cheeky" comedy, which is set to launch the new season at Chester Little Theatre.

Photo credit: Stephen Cain at Stephen Cain Photography.