GEORGE WAHAB
COMMUNITY THEATRE: The Way Off Broadway Players of Belhaven will present the comedy “Pool’s Paradise,” by Phillip King, from July 23-25 at the Way Off Broadway Theatre, 487 Pamlico Street in Belhaven at 8 p.m. Admission is $10. For reservations, call 943-3796. The company did a similar play, “See How They Run,” by the same author five years ago. The same characters appear, but the plot is different. The production follows main character and American actress Penelope Toop, who marries an English priest, Lionel, and lives in rural England. Lionel is rather conservative, while Penelope is daring, shocking, amusing and humorous. Ida, the housekeeper, convinces Penelope to contribute to a local football pool each week, and though Lionel is against gambling in any form, she does so. Penelope, Ida and Ida’s boyfriend Willie Briggs end up hitting the jackpot, winning $400,000 and leaving Penelope in a difficult situation, to say the least. Miss Skillon, the spinster parishioner with a “crush” on the vicar creates some irony and sarcasm throughout the plot, and with the arrival of a substitute priest and a bishop, “all hell breaks loose.” Pictured are cast members during rehearsal. They are (left to right) Vicki Armstrong, Mary Wahab, Dean Armstrong, Zachary Stevens, LeAnna Holmes, Landon Woolard and Mike Gibbs. Cast and crew not pictured are Fran Coleman, Lloyd Ballance and George Wahab.