The cast of The Cemetery Club. (Submitted photo/Cochin Community Players)

By battlefordsNOW Staff

Dramatic comedy

Cochin Community Players gets ready for new show

Nov 8, 2023 | 4:16 PM

There’ll be some laughter in the house later this month and into December when the Cochin Community Players put on their latest play The Cemetery Club.

Betty Ternier Daniels, chair of the board of directors, describes the play as a dramatic comedy, given the nature of the script by playwright Ivan Menchell.

The play is about three friends – all widows who get together to meet at their husband’s gravesites once a month and go for tea together.

Ternier Daniels explains in the story Ida is ready to begin a new life; Lucille just wants to have fun; and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife’s grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida’s heart.

Ternier Daniels said the show is a heart-warming play that was made into a 1993 film starring Ellen Burstyn, Dianne Ladd, and Olympia Dukkakis.

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She notes the community theatre lately has been doing farces, more of a broad type of comedy. Ternier Daniels is glad to be able to offer something a little different with The Cemetery Club.

“It’s good to be able to have some variety,” she said. “Also, the cast is five older actors… So this is a perfect cast.”

With support from Bill Baker, Jim Walls directs this light-hearted comedy, starring Roxanne Irvine, Charlotte Lockwood-Baker, Claudette McGuire, and Bernadette Provost. Walls also acts in the performance.

The show is being presented as a dinner-theatre production at Cochin’s community hall. Dinner theatre productions run Friday, Nov. 24 and Saturday, Nov. 25, and Thursday, Nov. 30 to Saturday, Dec. 2. Brunch productions are Sunday, Nov. 26 and Sunday, Dec 3. Tickets are available by calling 306-480-9333 or online at Cochin Community Players .

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