Dry Rot
Bolsover Drama Group‘s next production will be the comedy ‘Dry Rot’ this May. The play features the exploits of a crazy, but likeable gang of bookies; Honest Alf (Derrick Hulett), his daft sidekick Fred (Chris Peck) and Flash Harry (Ken Radmore), who plan to make a killing at the races by switching a French wonder horse with an old nag. In order to not arouse suspicion the gang have hired a secretary, John Danby (James Sheppard) to oversee the arrangements at the hotel. The action takes place in the lounge hall of the Bull and Cow, a country hotel run by a retired Indian Army colonel (Istvan Koszegi), his wife (Janet Koszegi), their daughter Susan (Keyleigh Hulett) and the maid, Beth Barton (Michelle Simpson), a country girl from the west of England. The bookies scheme doesn‘t quite go to plan and all manner of chaos ensues. Secret rooms, sliding panels, mistaken identity, a French jockey who cannot speak English (Nicky Constable), Sergeant Fire – a policewoman with a voice of thunder