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What will audiences want after the pandemic? Will it be daft comedies by Noël Coward? Or will they have an appetite for Pulitzer-winning cancer dramas such as Margaret Edsonâs Wit? Thatâs the dilemma faced by Jan Black in Johnny McKnightâs warm-hearted new play. She and her am-dram company have been given the go-ahead for a November run at Ayrâs Gaiety theatre and, with a singing ban ruling out a musical, they must predict the public mood by choosing just the right popular classic.
She has her eye on Blithe Spirit; her younger colleagues in the Gaiety Whirlers fancy something edgier.