Bude & District U3A met at The Parkhouse Centre for their monthly open meeting on Thursday 21st July 2011. There was a very impressive attendance for what transpired to be a very entertaining afternoon.
Instead of the usual speaker our new drama group presented the world premier of their production of “Murder at the Parkhouse Hotel” which was very loosely based on Agatha Christie and the children’s game “Cluedo” so we had a Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlett amongst the cast of the second play they were performing as part of the Murder / Mystery weekend which they were all attending at The Parkhouse Hotel.
The drama group have only been in action for about 6 months so we were all interested in seeing what they had been up to. They wrote and performed their play within a play themselves to much applause and laughter - it is always more entertaining when the members of the cast are friends or (in one case, at least) family! The costumes were resourceful and imaginative and in themselves provided much amusement.
We were all, however, left a bit in the dark as to “who dunnit? “ leading to much discussion over tea and biscuits
A vote of thanks was given for their great effort and dedication as well as an expert presentation and we are all looking forward to their next production.
The next open meeting of the U3A will be on 18th August at The Parkhouse Centre, Bude where there will be a talk about acupuncture by Penny and Bruce Matheson.
For anybody interested in joining or finding out more about the U3A there is a dedicated file in the Bude Library where information can be found about all the U3A activities in Bude as well as copies of the quarterly National Magazine which is distributed to all members nation wide. Bude and District now have about 18 interest groups details of which are in the file and there are a couple of possible new groups in the pipeline.
S Henry
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