The Ministry of Entertainment presents
MRS GERRISH'S GUEST HOUSE

Box Office (Lyme Regis Tourist Information Centre): 01297 442138

Saturday 18 August

8pm

£9 Adults / £7 U16

Any seaside resort would want to present this humourous look at life in a seaside B and B. In the summer Lyme Regis is full of visitors staying in a Bed and Breakfast, and they’ll be coming down to the Marine Theatre on Saturday 18th August at 8.00 pm for a slice of life. Mike and Hazel Cawte have run the luxury guesthouse Elton in UpLyme for several years and were most amused when they read about “Mrs Gerrish’s Guesthouse.”  “Anyone in the B and B business has tales to tell” revealed Mike “and this play sounds as if it’s going to show what life was really like behind the nets in those old fashioned guesthouses of our youth.”

This inventive company have used true stories and personal experience to fashion a show that recreates life behind the lace curtains of a fierce landlady.

It is 1958 and the summer season at Weston-Super-Mare is drawing to a close and, although the charabangs have returned most of the lobster-red holidaymakers back to their Midland homes, Mrs. Gerrish finds herself able to display the ‘No Vacancies’ sign. When Mrs Deane of Lyme Regis read about “Mrs Gerrish’s Guesthouse she went ahead and bought tickets straight away, “It sounded really amusing” she said. “We love coming down to the theatre, they have so many different things on and we always enjoy their shows; it’s lovely that its on our doorstep” 

Apart from the residential guests like 97-year-old Mrs. Gimlet, whose relatives were rumoured to have caused the great potato famine of 1845, the short-term visitors to Mrs. Gerrishs’ Guest House include the suave and debonair Mr. Thomas Terry, the intrepid Hurley family from West Bromich who arrive shoe-horned into their motor cycle combination and the Great Mephysto, star of the Winter Gardens ‘Summertime Jamboree’.

With ‘Mrs. Gerrish’s Guesthouse’, the MOE’s 4th show, they leave the ration-ridden ‘40’s behind and streak into the stratosphere of 1950’s sophistication. Once again, true stories and personal experiences form the basis of the show, tales from front-line holiday-makers and veteran landladies of that Great British institution the sea side guest house.

 Together with the upbeat, optimistic songs of the period the MOE re-create that age of innocence when we ‘Never had it so good’. Mrs. Gerrish ‘Never had it so full’ and most British teenagers just ‘Never had it’! Tickets from Lyme TIC at £9 Adults / £7 U16

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