In Cocktail Sticks Alan Bennett reminisces about his life. He talks to his dead father as his mother yearns for a different life. The play is funny, tender and sad. This is one of the very first productions of Cocktail Sticks since its opening performance at the National Theatre in 2012. Barnes Community Players will take it to the Edinburgh Fringe after sell-out successes in three previous years when we performed plays by Ayckbourn, Bennett and Leigh. Our 2022 production of Abigail's Party was much acclaimed by all who saw it. 

Two In Torquay is Alan Bennett at his best. Two people meet who have never met before. They talk about the weather, they talk about the woman, the spinster's rather miserable life, they talk about her mother, they talk of darker things.... If the woman is a spinster, if the mother is a mother, if the darker things are dark and if so dark for whom? There is a sting. It is an unexpected sting as stings should be. But then there is another sting that is almost the same as the first one, but completely different. Then there is the finale, which twists everything, but the outcome, around.