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Take A Chance On Me


20 to 29 March 2014 at 8pm
Matinees Sunday 23 and Saturday 29 March at 2pm
No show Monday 24 March

“None of them ever thought it would come to this. That they would pay money to go to a dinner, solely for the chance to meet someone. They’ve all brought with them the baggage of failure, pain, hurt, rejection. Tonight-in their eyes ---- humiliation.”

And that is how the play begins - the waiter addressing the audience directly and introducing the table of six. Three women and three men who are, at that very moment, coming to grips with the realisation that their lives have been reduced to paying to attend singles dinners in the hope of meeting someone as desperate as themselves. Each has recently lost their spouse, either to death or to infidelity or simply boredom and this has left them divorced of all self-belief and facing the complexities of a dating game where the rules have completely changed since they were young.

Take a Chance on Me is the perfect setup for a two hour moveable feast on the chaos our lives can become. What ensues is a smorgasbord of chuckle, snort and cringe with a healthy serving of gasp on the side.