Daylight Savings at Castle Hill

Daylight Savings at Castle Hill

How wonderful is daylight saving, when you can suspend time for one extra hour. When memories of past relationships can be a sunny comfort when life is not at its brightest. What would you do if an old flame from your younger days calls you while your workaholic husband has chosen to be away on your anniversary to fly overseas again?

The answer soon becomes apprent in the season opening Australian comedy Daylight Savings at Castle Hill Players (NSW).

It is the last day of daylight saving and Pittwater prepares to say goodbye to long Summer days for another year with the promise of a beautiful sunset. Felicity, a successful restaurateur,has found herself yearning for passion in her marriage. Her husband Tom, a sport manager, constantly neglects her as he managers his spoilt tennis star. To make matters worse Felicity has been left alone on their seventh wedding anniversary.

Felicity is well primed when her old college boyfriend, American Joshua Makepeace, contacts her out of the blue after nearly 20 years. Felicity sets out to reignite and rekindle the passion in her life and she hopes that Joshua will come to the ‘party’. Table clothes are laid, wine glasses are polished, candles are lit and lobster is on the menu. It all sounds like a perfectly secret romantic evening without your husband. You would think …

Nothing goes to plan when Felicity’s curious and high maintenance mother turns up, is continually interrupted by her restaurantbecause the maître d’ and the cook are fighting a battle with each otherand, her clueless neighbor invites herself to dinner. These farcical interruptions to Felicity’s romantic evening, escalates the hilarity in Daylight Savings.

Written by Australian Nick Enright and directed by Bernard Teuben, Daylight Savings is set to give the 2015 season for Castle Hill Players a comedy kick start. Tickets can be booked online at www.paviliontheatre.org.au. Daylight Savings opens on Friday 30 January 2015 and runs until Saturday 21 February 2015. Tickets price: $21/$26.

Image: Anthea Brown and Luke Hawkins.

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