The Theatre Goers group went to two productions in October. They were both new plays. The first, at the Maskers'  Studio, was Murder in the Citizens' Jury, which was set in a future in which Citizens' Juries have been set up to discuss environmental issues in the face of an alarming acceleration of global warming. The murder of a jury member - by knitting needles! - leads to an investigation,  with all jury members having motive and opportunity. There was some excellent acting but we felt the play wasn't sure if it was a polemic about the environment or a murder mystery. We liked the ending, however, as we were asked to choose the murderer's fate (we chose to save her).

Our second outing was to Winchester Theatre Royal to see The Lion and the Unicorn, in which what happened at a dinner given by Winston Churchill for Neville Chamberlain and his wife a few weeks after the start of World War Two was imagined. The actors, several of whom were recognisable from Soaps of yore, stood at lecterns and read from scripts, which was somewhat unsatisfactory. The characters, especially those of Churchill and Chamberlain, were convincingly conveyed, but the general feeling in our group was that this play was interesting but had a limited appeal.