
I think this is because the talented members of Dunnville
Community Theatre feel more like family than brilliant performers. Their
success evokes a joy usually associated with a doting parent and DCT’s
rendition of ‘Sex Please, We’re Sixty’ indeed made me feel like a proud papa.

Guests to the Rose Cottage include Hillary (Candace Stern),
Charmaine (rookie actor Deb Zynomirski) and romance novelist Victoria (Diane
Morris). Each of them succumb to Bud’s advances, giving him stiff cause to pop
his little blue pills.
The plot thickens after one of Henry’s Venusia pills is
secretly slipped into one of the ladies iced tea. Hilarity ensues when the
guests later discover Bud has been “three-timing” them. Vowing to get even, the
ladies plot their revenge by swapping Bud’s Viagra with the Venusia. Bud offers
hopelessly devoted Henry advice on romance, then gives him what they believe to
be Viagra. Suddenly both men end up with symptoms associated with menopause,
symptoms that are acted out with masterful humour (“Sob. Why is it so hot in
here?”)
In the end all works out for the lovesick group and the
audience showed their approval with thunderous applause.
I attended the show with my sister Kim. We sat front and
centre with our friend and director of Sex Please, Nancy Erskine. We often
broke into laughter at what was happening on stage. “Even though I’ve seen it
before it still makes me laugh,” Nancy told me during intermission. With the
high caliber of talent in this show, it was hard not to be amused. No
enhancement pill required.