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‘THE Cemetery Club’ is a playful tribute to the art of living, laughing and loving, and is a production you don’t want to miss at Cue Theatre.
It is the story of three Jewish widows in Forest Hills, Queens. They are the surviving half of three sets of long time best friends, each of whom is in a different stage of healing and moving on with her life.
Once a month the three women - Doris, Ida and Lucille - meet to pay their respects to their husbands, who are all buried in the same cemetery.
Doris is content to have loved her husband well and seeks nothing more than simply to go on remembering him.
Lucille appears to quickly have dismissed the loss of her late husband and hungrily searches for a new man. She flaunts the men on her arm with hopes that her philandering late husband sees that she has moved on without him.
No doubt, Doris would contentedly visit the cemetery every day, but Lucille declares “I refuse to continue to be a part of a club where half the members are dead!”
Ida is in the middle of these two opposites. She recounts how her husband always loved coming home to her home cooked meals, and how she spent the first few months after his death numbly cooking elaborate meals for the husband that would never come home to her again.
When Ida spends time with a widower named Sam, she wonders if she may be ready to open her heart to a second chance at love; her two friends have other ideas.
‘The Cemetery Club’ has been compared by many to the play ‘Steel Magnolias’. The subject matter of this play is every bit as powerful, but writer Ivan Menchell’s style has been described as having the more light-hearted feel of a sitcom.
The Cemetery Club opened on May 15, 1990 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City where it ran for 56 performances. It was released as a film in 2003.
The show is on from Wednesday June 16 to Sunday June 27, at 38 Matai Street Inglewood.
You have to see this comical and lively play staring Selina Mackie, Juliet McLean, Raewyn Greig, Jeff Sanders and Gloria Webby. Get your tickets now.
Available from the Inglewood book centre $22 per person or $20 per person prepaid groups of 10+.
For more information phone 06 756 7032 or check out their website - www.cuetheatre.co.nz