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Not a chair to spare Brac School Packed for Flying Players

May 10, 1973

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EVERY chair on Cayman Brac was put to use last Saturday night at the Island's Secondary School to accommodate the enthusiastic crowd which attended the first aerial tour of the Cayman Drama Society's production, "Loves A Luxury". There was an Herculean effort behind the dramatists' Brac opening, but all difficulties were overcome and the tour went on to be termed, a big success. There was, for example, a truck breakdown while shipping stage equipment to the airport on Grand Cayman. Fortunately, Director Stewart Hurst and players John Furze and Peter Phillips proved capable mechanics in addition to their thespian talents. Another hurdle rose in front of the players when it was realized that props for the play and related gear couldn't be wrestled into the Owen Roberts terminal building for the necessary pre-flight weighing.

Solution: someone suggested a bathroom scale for outdoors weighing. At 7.30 that night the equipment for the play was ready to be packed into the plane.

A dreary-eyed cast arrived at the airport next morning at 6.30. When the actors, backstage crew and props landed in the Brac, two trucks were waiting for them.

The main stage was set up by 10 a.m., but the finer details of the stage work took until 7 p.m., and the curtain rose twenty minutes late. The three rooms of the Cayman Brac Secondary School were completely filled with patrons and at least 100 people were left standing outside. Saturday night the rooms were jammed, with every chair on the Brac put to use. Again, many stood outside. In the Brac a dance is held for special occasions, and they threw one for the Drama Society until 4 a.m. Sunday morning. Sunday was a busy day, but the plane was loaded by noon.

The rest of the day, all hands rested and toured the Island. The Society would like to thank Stewart Hurst, the Producer and Organizer of the hotel facilities and Anton Foster, Manager of the Buccaneers Inn for giving them such a good time. Members of the Cayman Drama Society agreed that "Love's A Luxury" was a huge success in the Brac, and they hope to make the trip again. Their next play, "Black Comedy", just might make it to the Brac in June.