BOUNDARY Players chose Peter Quilter's Just the Ticket as the second play of their season.

It is essentially a character study of Susan, a lonely, bubbly woman of a certain age. It was originally staged in 2011 with one woman (Amanda Muggleton) taking on the role of Susan. Boundary chose to stage it with four actresses playing Susan.

The play consists of a series of conversations between Susan and imagined characters. She reminisces about times and friends and seeks to re-live her experiences during a holiday to Australia.

This time her trip is on her own and her loneliness manifests itself in her talking too much to reluctant strangers. The play got off to a rather shaky start. We were introduced to Susan as she nervously waits for her plane in the airport lounge. Davina Harris was hesitant in this opening scene conveying Susan’s nervousness as she fidgeted while waiting for her flight.

The play picked up pace with Pat Archer’s Susan, who showed her bolder side with great energy, confidence and stage presence in a later scene. She clearly relished her disco dance to Earth Wind and Fire’s Boogie Wonderland.

There was lots of humour including Susan’s inability to walk in high heels and disappointment that the security man didn’t want to pat her down!

Marguerite Luxford gave us a world weary Susan continued to reflect on her life, love, loneliness and the trials and joys of growing older. Occasionally we saw Susan’s brasher side but overall Marguerite’s Susan was warm and vulnerable.

Susan’s past remained unrevealed and led her to dance alone and flirt with the barman. Mary-Ann Mendum had the most convincing northern accent and brought warmth and vulnerability as well as humour to her performance which was precise and polished.

Under the direction of Mary Robinson, each actress brought an element of her own personality to the character of Susan and it was obvious that they had all worked very hard in bringing Peter Quilter’s script to life.