Chapter Eleven
Mrs McCrackin & the Co-op
A seatbelt is not always necessary.
Being in Derek’s panto was a whole new experience for the cast. Derek had never been anything but a flop on stage and an embarrassment to the panto. Offstage, however, he seemed to know what worked, and he and Charlie the writer worked well together. Standing up to his mother changed him; shaking free of his mother’s grip and her dream to make into a younger version of his father emancipated Derek. And Charlie understood, they had the same vision and the same sense of humour.
Agnus never did comedy; she was strictly a “get a load of her” sort of actress who in her time had received wolf whistles on and off stage. Not now, Agnus could not remember the last wolf whistle she had heard. It was, to quote Heather, “
