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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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