Ball keeps the ball rolling... 'Worm's Eye View' Opens Here
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BY STANLEY PANTON'
In keeping with standards of the Cayman Drama Society - its "Worm's Eye View" (their fourth production) will delight young and old and will in no way offend anyone.
The play itself, aside from being very dated, is nothing of real substance. It is a situation play with little or very few laugh lines. This may not be exactly correct, but speaking as an outsider to the English nuances and puns, particularly during the early years of the forties, I got very few laughs from the lines. It is a "situation" play and depended upon the situations in which the characters found themselves and thus had to rely upon the imagination of its director, Keith Ball, who came through with flying colours.
The play concerns the billeting R.A.F. men set in the early forties during the height of the Second World War when private dwellings with any space available. were used by the Armed Forces as what we would think of as room and boarding houses. The "unfortunate" men posted to "Albert House" residence of the Bountys' think they have a lot at which to gripe. For my part, I found nothing to gripe at in regards to the setting, in spite of their numerous desultory remarks. No credit was given in the programme to set designer and construction crew. I'd like to offer my congrats, to their efforts.
I am sure every serviceman feels he has a gripe; it's either about: the food, the barracks, or the being away Worm's Contd. on P. 20.
