18th - 20th May 2006 Thameside Theatre Grays, Essex
Saturday 27th May - Felixstowe Drama Festival
Sunday 4th June - Thurrock Drama Festival Thameside Theatre Grays, Essex

Michael Cooney's Cash on Delivery is a farce centred around Eric Swan who, unbeknown to his wife Linda, has been defrauding the DSS for two years by claiming benefit for an army of fictitious lodgers, all of whom suffer from a variety of ailments for which they can claim. The play begins when Eric finds it all getting too complicated and tried to extricate himself by killing off his make-believe tenants. The first call he makes is to inform the council that one of his creations, Norman Bassett (the lumberjack) has died. He is interrupted in this by the real life Norman Bassett (a shoe salesman) who really is Eric's lodger, but has no idea that Eric is claiming benefits in his name. When a few minutes later the DSS Inspector Mr Jenkins comes round to see another one of the fictitious claimants Norman gets sucked into Eric's web of deceit.
As Linda, Uncle George (the only other person who knows about the scam), Norman's fiancée and assorted officials from the council turn up, different lies unfold. Until finally the orchestra of mistimings, mistaken identities and hasty inventions leads to an incredibly convoluted plot involving a drunk council official, a mad mother who eats wall paper, two corpses, one deaf piano tuner, one lumberjack, several cross dressers and a very temperamental washing machine.

CAST
Eric Wayne Prince
Norman Kevin Watts
Mr Jenkins Harry Doyle
George John Scowen
Dr Chapman Steve Hodder
Mr Forbright Jim Wilkinson
Linda Wendy Ward
Sally Karen Reeves
Ms Cowper Jayne Jones
Miss Dixon Tracy Carsberg / Zoe Lyall
Stage managerJill Snelling
Prompt Ian Horne
Props Jennifer Butcher / BrendaSansom
Programme Wendy Ward
Sound Martyn Williams

WINNERS OF THURROCK DRAMA FESTIVAL 2006