Farcical play coming to Muritai

Get ready for your glasses to steam up with laughter: Butterfly Creek Theatre Troupe is performing I t Runs in the Family by Britain’s master of farce, Ray Cooney. In this larger-thanlife tale of comical chaos, Dr Mortimer (a successful neurologist) must fend off a surprise paternity case, keep his wife out of the picture, and simultaneously give a prestigious international lecture that may lead to his knighthood - if all goes to plan. This is a farce though, so nothing goes to plan. As Dr Mortimer tries to get himself out of one sticky situation, he plants himself firmly in the middle of a snowball of lies, mistaken identity, inopportune coincidence and miscommunication. The result is two hours’ worth of laugh-out-loud comedy to banish the winter blues.

Director Florence McFarlane says “Directing this play is such fun. Rehearsal time passes in an instant as we polish and laugh our way through Ray Cooney’s script. It is some time since I directed his Out Of Order which was also a no holds barred comedy: it’ll be an evening of fun to lift your spirits.”

It Runs in the Family is showing in Eastbourne’s Muritai School Hall from 24-

It’s been noted that the bus shelter in the Bay has been there for 62 years. A photo of it when it was completed in 1959 is in the Turnbull Library. The feeling that it should stay in the Bay is very strong amongst the residents. There must be an accommodation in the new shared pathway for the iconic bus shelter to remain. Its mural is so unique and its history should be preserved.

A reminder that there is the planting of the Mahina Bay Stream banks planned for the 13th of June 10am to 12noon now that the banks have been cleared. We’re sending out a call for volunteers to meet up and carry out the task with the incentive of an afterplanting function when it’s all over.

Residents are advised that a Road Safety Survey is being prepared for locals to formulate a combined approach to the Hutt City Council on matters relating to road safety in the Bay.

Great News for all the residents and the visitors to the Bay: An application for funding a defibrillator in Mahina Bay has been submitted to the Eastbourne Community Trust.