The Cemetery Club
In Association with Ian Dickens Productions International Ltd
Cast includes: Anne Charleston, Anita Harris, Shirley-Anne Field, Karen Ford, Debbie Norman
Anne Charleston, who is known to millions for her roles as Madge Bishop in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and Lily Butterfield in Emmerdale, has been announced in the cast of The Cemetery Club alongside Peter Ellis, who spent 16 years playing Chief Inspector Brownlow in The Bill.
They join well-loved British star Anita Harris and iconic film and television actress Shirley-Anne Field in this witty and touching play about three feuding Jewish women – Steel Magnolias meets The Golden Girls.
Ida, Lucille and Doris are part of a club – the cemetery club. Every month they meet at Ida’s New York house for tea then trundle off to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with their late husbands.
Lucille fancies herself as a flamboyant swinger, Doris is a traditional matronly widow and Ida is somewhere in between. When Sam, a butcher, meets the widows at the cemetery while he is visiting his wife’s grave he changes their lives for ever.
Mercury Theatre
- Mercury Theatre, Balkerne Gate, Colchester, CO1 1PT
The Mercury Theatre is a highly respected regional theatre and home to the critically acclaimed Mercury Theatre Company, staging a broad mix of classics and new writing as well as working extensively within the local community.