109 May 2022 Merrijig community Newsletter

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Adele’s Radio Play finally gets a showing, recorded
before a live audience.
On Thursday 28 th April at the Delatite
Hotel, the Mansfield Arts Society
presented Radio Plays performed
and recorded before a live audience.
After Covid caused 2 cancellations,
take 3 was successful. The first play
to be presented was Adele
McCormack’s first ever radio play
“Old George’s Wake” where Beryl who is 80 odd and hard of hearing hilariously mishears so many
things in such an amusing way that the audience is in stitches for most of the show.
One of the actors who had not previously met Adele, following the
show mentioned to her that it was
a joy to be up on the stage and
watch the smiles and laughs
come to the faces of the
audience. He said “I wish you
could have seen it from where I
stood too.”
Many locals known to Adele
personally congratulated her.
Following the production Adele was presented with a beautiful
bouquet of native flowers in appreciation for her creating the radio
play which will be on Radio Mansfield in the months to come. As
she left the room many of the audience not known to Adele
praised the work which was most rewarding for her.
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