Tag: Mel Pereira

Dinner With The Family by Jean Anouilh, The Questors Student Group, 10 July 1999

To the Questors with the Duchess of Castlebar (Janie’s mum) to see a student production.

No danger that The Duchess had to fork out for our tickets (I think she only took us to shows of any variety there on guest freebies).

Anouilh comedies tends to be quaint and within the grasp of student drama groups, so I suspect that the production was pretty good, but my log is silent on the matter.

Here is a link to The Questors archive resources on that production.

I escaped the duty to reciprocate the freebie tickets with a dinner, because Janie and I went on to Rupert Stubbs’s 40th birthday do on Sailing Barge Resourceful in Chiswick.

Resourceful, now relocated to the estuary as a tea house

Given that we had fed the multitudes the week before for The Duchess’s birthday…

Dinner With The Family: A 70th Birthday Do For The Duchess, 3 July 1999

…she could hardly complain.

Quatermaine’s Terms by Simon Gray, The Questors Studio, 23 May 1998

We went to this with Pauline “The Duchess”, who will have sported the theatre tickets (which she got free), which she saw as fair exchange for Janie to buy the drinks and me to buy dinner afterwards.

We went to Gilbey’s for that dinner. Gilbey’s was a small chain run by honourable people, if the companies house dissolution records (which is all I can find on-line) are to be believed.

As for Quatermaine’s Terms, I remember reading and liking this Simon Gray play a lot, so was keen to see a production of it. As always, The Questors did a competent job and that theatre company is especially to be commended for its on-line archive, which has preserved everything you could possibly want to know about that production (and quite possibly more besides).