Echo Players Presents: A Grand Time in the Rapids

By Stewart Lemoine, Directed by Ian Morton

This hare-brained tale is set in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1959. A newly arrived English widow has a very delicate disclosure to make to her brand new beau - and she arranges for an Etiquette Expert to help her down this tricky path. At first it starts out well but soon things get out of hand - four solid doors are slammed, drinks are tossed, identities are mistaken - and the action moves at a very tidy clip. These are eccentric people in eccentric situations and the dialogue peels off like a 1940’s cocktail party - frightfully polite but with Oscar Wildly twists.