Sandy Clinton and Trevor Blum play Ida and Sam in The Cemetery Club.DORIS, Lucille and Ida are long-time friends who come together each month to visit their husbands’ graves.
Ivan Menchell’s The Cemetery Club is an engaging start to the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company’s 2008 season.
Directed by Alan Burrows, the play explores the notion that while life may change, love will always remain.
Set in Queens, New York in the autumn, the play follows the lives of three friends who now also share the special bond of widowhood.
Though extremely close, the three women have very different personalities.
It soon becomes apparent that in a club, which has widowhood as its charter, three’s company, four’s a crowd!
Conflict arises when Ida (Sandy Clinton) starts dating Sam (Trevor Blum) a widower friend.
The play touches on many subjects and themes, some humorous, others heartrending.
The Cemetery Club is on at the Athenaeum in Lilydale from Tuesday through to Saturday evenings until 15 March, with a matinee on Sunday 9 March.
To book phone 9735 1777.
