Sweet Delilah.. see the photos

Our enjoyable and much-loved run of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club ended on the 10th May which completes our 2024/25 season – aaaaaahhh! (a collective sigh all round after all the necessary intensive work required to put on a performance.)

We now embark upon our ‘summer break’ during which we meet up to read through scripts and start the process of selecting and casting our plays for the next November and May productions.

Meanwhile we can now share some photos taken during dress rehearsal that give you a flavour (and perhaps a few memories) of the show.

Putting on American plays, not least those based in the southern states, can be a challenge but we have done it successfully many times before and we achieved it again. Okay – whilst North Carolinians may not have been fooled – our local audience certainly were transported to a beach cottage on the Outer Banks for a few weekends through the decades with a great performance from our all-female cast. The audience loved their story, the humour and, of course, there were a few tears.

This was our second comedy from the Jones, Hope, Wooten writing team who are among the most popular and widely-produced playwrights in the US. They specialize in writing laugh-out-loud comedies and creating vivid strong roles for women and between them, they’ve written classic television, hit movies, and Off-Broadway comedy. It won’t surprise you that Jamie Wooten was a writer and producer for many seasons of the classic television series The Golden Girls.

The Sweet Delilah Swim Club

by Jones Hope Wooten

May 2025