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Addams Family  -  Theatre Review





          Those who know Heywood well will recognise one of
          our most famous families, The Addams.

          Recreated with loving care by the director, Jo
          Weetman, they enable her to use her day time skills
          as a midwife to breathe life into the loving, caring
          family first seen some time ago on television.

          The family believe in retaining their formal links with
          their dead? ancestors which gives the director the
          chance to have at least 40 people from Heywood
          and Rochdale on the stage dancing and singing to the
          fabulous music of the ten members of the orchestra.

          Who would have thought that so many talented
          people live and work in the town and that they
          would have been prepared to put in so much work
          for nothing except the chance to appear before a
          keen Heywood audience?


          As Morticia, the luminous, loving vampire, Shelley
          Roberts attracts a dedicated audience. Not only      family, a normal couple from Slaithwaite and
          does she look the part with ghostly relish, but she   Mossley, come to dinner where they get to play
          can sing, dance and act almost as well as her hus-   family games which involve rumours of various
          band, the well-known Spanish vampire, Gomez de       untoward practices.
          la Hoy (John Weetman), although his skills with a
          torture chair are nearly as good as his acting.      Anybody who reads Rochdale Online or the
                                                               Heywood Advertiser will recognise what happens
          The other members of the family are all to be seen   next... Yes, a good old-fashioned family row, but,
          regularly in Heywood Market, either as children      thanks to the director’s efforts everything ends well,
          behaving badly, Pugsley (Holly Hughes) or elders,    or at least not everybody dies.
          grandma (Andrea Leasby) selling her potions from a
          shopping cart  to an unsuspecting Heywood public.    What a great advert for Heywood.
          I swear I have seen Fester (James Earnshaw) on the
          school run in his yellow jacket.                     Director, Jo Weetman
                                                               Sponsored by Kavanagh & Coates

          The plot is straight forward, boy meets girl (Sarah   Review: Steve Griffiths
          Howarth), falls in love with her goth like charms and   Photos: RADesign
          her ability to bite him like nobody else.  He and his





                                                   Forthcoming productions
                                         Heywood Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society
                                                   www.heywoodaods.co.uk

                                                       Bugsy Malone
                                                       15-19 October




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