The Teahouse of the August Moon

This is a light-hearted comedy about the American occupation of Japanese islands after the Second World War. It features a misfit captain sent to 'Americanise' a village and the wily village headman assigned to him as interpreter, who runs rings round him. Instead of building a pentagon-shaped school, the villagers inveigle the captain into building a teahouse, and instead of touristic merchandising, the captain happily comes up with a plan to mass-produce the local hooch . . .. . Tickets £10, box office 01737 812 703, doors and bars open at 7.30pm, Riddell Hall, Walton on the Hill