At the Community Hub in our village (a small shop set up one morning a week to sell a few essentials and provide coffee and cake to the locals) a neighbour told us that a nearby village were putting on Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

A few of us immediately decided to go together. The performance was in Dunsford in the Teign Valley, and the handy name of their amateur dramatic society is, of course, DADS.

It was a fun evening, and the cast did an excellent job. By definition they’re a...