Shows In Production

WED 12 OCT to SAT 15 OCT : 7.45 pm

Sinodun Players present

" The Devil's Gateway"

             by Sarah Daniels

 

It’s the 1980s and the world is changing.  A new one is struggling to free itself from the old, Reagan and Thatcher are facing off against Brezhnev and women are on the march: cue laughs, warmth and an entertaining look into our past.

 

The Devil’s Gateway takes these huge themes and plants them in the living room where real people try to deal with them.  Playwright Sarah Daniels finds the humour and humanity in what was a joint battle of the bombs and the sexes.

 

At its heart The Devil’s Gateway is about how mothers and daughters come to terms with each other and the new world they’re entering. It will make you laugh and cry and sometimes both at the same time.

 

We see housewife Betty wanting more than her traditional role.  And her poor husband Jim, rooted in the 1950s, thinking the way to make her happy is to equip her with a new kitchen: No Jim!

 

All of this is played out against the unseen but ever present background of the Greenham Common protest movement.