Two’s Company at the Niton Village Hall with the Pepperpot Players showed off some marvellous writing by David Tristram and Jean McConnell of Concord Theatricals, and Hilary Mackelden of Lazy Bee Scripts.

Follow that with the magical acting by the Pepperpot Players in these five conversational one scene duologue plays – and what a night!

Directed by Steve Watts, this was a superb production.

Each individual play was beautifully introduced with a poetic reading, and the properties, costumes, and sets, given such a tiny theatre as Niton Village Hall, were brilliant.

It was the order of the five plays that was superb.

In the first play, trying desperately to find something in common when you’ve met up because of internet dating, Peas shows how hard it is to find things you can even agree about, even if sex will finally link you in the end. Peas in a pod!

In Early Blight the daughter comes late to her invalided mother’s side on the beach having just discovered just how much control of her life her mother has stolen from her over the years.

This is breaking point. The daughter will leave. Go anywhere but home. Nothing can ever be the same.

In Dancers two girls know the joy of ballroom dancing, but both have always seen it as a way to find a partner too. In competition, and critical of each other, they still have a huge sense of humour in common. In spite of any difficulties, they will stay in step.

Two ladies arrived on the same coach trip. Now they are sitting on the same beach bench. These two Ladies at the Seaside, one older, one younger, might start off comparing reasons for coming to the coast, but both begin to admit how other people have taken advantage of them, and now telling each other the truth of the past, getting together will solve all their problems.

And finally in Carrot, a meeting between the grand new boss who knows how cheap imports are killing the company’s business, and the union man who represents the workers, who all believe they are making the perfect product, shows just how the two sides are disconnected until they can find a link.

The grand one shows his lower side, and then boy, does the carrot stick offer of more money and high status entice the lesser one!

Finding connections, severing them, having desires in common, being taken advantage of, and finding a way forward – what a night of conversations with Two’s Company.

A really good evening of drama and acting! Well done, Pepperpot Players.