Beat the January blues at Ballywillan’s Bally Bendon!

BALLYWILLAN Drama Group are presenting a hilarious new comedy in the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine, this month which is guaranteed to blow away those winter blues.
‘Anyone for Breakfast?’, written by Derek Benfield, the master of comedy script writing, is presently being rehearsed by six of the group’s leading actors in preparation for the January opening night.
The play is a priceless comedy of marital mishaps, misunderstandings and mistaken identities all brought to hilarious life by this award winning group.
The play features Alan McClarty, the star of so many Ballywillan shows, as he takes on the pivotal role of Gilbert Robinson into whose house mayhem, confusion and misunderstandings arrive in equal measure one winter Friday evening.
Gilbert’s wife, Shirley, is played by Helen Wilkinson, who in the second half of the play must try and make some sense of this confusion and disorder sown in the first half!
Vicky Hogg plays Shirley’s friend, Jane, who is preparing for a dinner date with a young man, Mark, who she met at the local squash club. Mark is being played by Patrick Connor.
The remaining two characters in the play are being played by Kellyann McKillen and Steven Millar. To give anything away about their characters or description of their roles would only spoil things for the audiences!
‘Anyone for Breakfast?’ is directed by Brian Logan with Alan McClarty as Assistant Director.
The Ballywillan Drama Group’s usual production team are involved in the play thus ensuring only the best reaches the Riverside stage.
The play is set in the 1980s in the village of Bally Bendon, which, if you didn’t already know, is situated just a few miles outside Portrush. What do you mean you’ve never heard of Bally Bendon! Come on now! Sure you know it’s just up past the old church, up thon wee road, take two rights, cross the burn, then straight on for a wheen of yards and a final left and there you are – you can’t miss it!
Expect 1980s fashion and dress sense, 1980s music, 1980s drinks and food, 1980s décor, 1980s everything – it’s an absolute hoot!
The play opens on Tuesday 23 January and plays until Saturday 28 January with a matinee on the 28th. Tickets available as follows: Book on-line (24 hrs/day) at : www. riversidetheatre.org.uk By phone: 028 70 123 123 or call in person at the theatre box office.