Longueville Little Theatre Company

Confusions is the overall title for five playlets that are loosely linked with undertones of human eccentricities and the dilemma of loneliness. They are set in a living room, a bar, a restaurant, a marquee and a park.

The first – Mother Figure – portrays a woman, socially marooned for most of the day with her young children, who is unable to escape from using baby talk while entertaining her neighbours.

In Drinking Companion a commercial traveller tries his hand at seduction with either or both of two perfume salesgirls.

Between Mouthfuls deals with two couples eating at separate tables in a restaurant. There are previous links between them but at first the couples do not communicate with each other. As a waiter hovers between the tables we hear only the snatches of conversation that he hears.

Described by one national director as “probably the best short comedy ever written”, Gosforth’s Fête is a romp at a garden bazaar. Nothing goes according to plan and an illicit affaire is made public in typical Ayckbourn style.

A Talk in the Park brings the play to a close with five individuals on park benches baring their souls in one-sided conversations.