Weston-super-Mare
Dramatic Society
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
Performed at St. Peter's Church, Weston-super-Mare : March 24th - 26th 1971
CAST
BRIAN PIKE
PRODUCTION
Producer JOAN TUCKEY
Brian Pike and scenes from the play
Brian Pike with some of the cast
Sailor Beware by Philip King and Falkland Carey
Performed at Weston-super-Mare Playhouse : June 7th - 12th 1971 including Saturday matinee
CAST
Edie Hornett JOAN TOWNSEND
Emma Hornett JOY WILKINSON
Mrs. Lack MARY HUGHES
Henry Hornett BRIAN S. MORTON-HICKS
Albert Tufnell, A.B. GREGORY THACKER
Carnoustie Bligh, A.B. MARK PEARCE
Daphne Pink PAT MURPHY
Shirley Hornett AMANDA WRIGHT
The Reverend Oliver Purefoy
GERALD WHITE
PRODUCTION
Producer DAVID HEMMING
Stage Manager DERRICK LANE
Assistant Stage Managers GARTH D. SMITH, COLIN LOVE,
STEVEN BOLEY
Production Assistant TERESINHA MORTON-HICKS
Property Mistresses GILLIAN RAINES and JOYCE TAPLEY
Wardrobe Mistress NAN HESS
Continuity BRENDA WHITE
Hon. Business Manager ANNE PIKE
Publicity Officer MARGARET HORLER
Scenery Designed by JOHN BUTLER
Constructed and Painted by Society Members
Costumes BRISTOL OLD VIC
Photographer GARTH D. SMITH
Oh What a Lovely War
by Joan LIttlewood, Charles Chilton, Len Deighton & Alfred Ralston
Performed at Weston-super-Mare Playhouse : October 19th - 23rd 1971 including Saturday matinee
A Theatre Workshop Group Production - In aid of The Abbeyfield Society Ltd. (Weston)
CAST
Row, Row, Row BRIAN S. MORTON-HICKS, GARTH D. SMITH,
HAYDN DURANT, STEVEN BOLEY,
GERALD WHITE, RAY EDBROOKE
We don't want to Lose You
The Ladies
Belgium put the Kibosh on the Kaiser
BRENDA WHITE
I'll Make a Man of You BARBARA SMITH
Pack Up Your Troubles The Men
Itchy Koo MARY EDBROOKE, GERALD WHITE
Heilige Nacht DAVID HEMMING
Christmas Day in the Cookhouse
BRIAN S. MORTON-HICKS
Good Bye-ee GERALD WHITE and The Ladies
Oh Wat a Lovely War The Company
Gassed Last Night RAY EDBROOKE, GREGORY THACKER,
DAVID HEMMING, TONY HAYMAN
Roses of Picardy HAYDN DURANT
Hush, here comes a Whizz-bang
The Men
There's a Long, Long Trail
GARTH D. SMITH
I don't want to be a Soldier
BRIAN S. MORTON-HICKS, TERRY STREET
Kaiser Bill,
They were only playing leap-frog,
If You want the old Battalion,
If the Sergeant steals your Rum,
Far, far from Wipers The Men
I wore a Tunic RAY EDBROOKE
Forward Joe Soap's Army,
Fred Karno's Army,
When this lousy War is over
Wash Me in the Water,
I want to go Home,
The Bells of Hell The Men
Keep the Home Fires Burning
MARY HUGHES
Sister Susie The Ladies
Chanson de craonne The Men
And When They Ask Us The Company
The Company of Pierrots
STEVEN BOLEY, JOHN BUTLER, PAUL DENING,
HAYDN DURANT, MARY EDBROOKE, RAY EDBROOKE,
JOAN FISHER, TONY HAYMAN, DAVID HEMMING,
NAN HESS, MARGARET HORLER, MARY HUGHES,
BRIAN S. MORTON-HICKS, NICOLA PARKER,
BOBBIE ROBERTSON, BARBARA SMITH,
GARTH D. SMITH, GWEN SPILLER, TERRY STREET,
JUNE TANNER, GREGORY THACKER,
BRENDA WHITE, GERALD WHITE
PRODUCTION
Director BRIAN PIKE
Stage Manager NIGEL EDWARDS
Assistant Stage Managers
JOHN HORLER
and JEREMY WHITE
Continuity JOAN TOWNSEND
Sound Effects CHRISTINE RICARD
and ANTONIA McGRATH
Scenery Designed by JOHN BUTLER
Painted by JOHN BUTLER
and JEREMY WHITE
Wardrobe BRISTOL OLD VIC
Additional costumes Designed and made by
BARBARA SMITH
Wardrobe Mistresses NAN HESS
and BETTY CORNISH
Properties JOAN FISHER,
MARY HUGHES and
BOBBIE ROBERTSON
Business Manager JOAN FISHER
Itchy Koo and Row, Row, Row
Arranged by
JUDYTHE ALEXANDER
Publicity MARGARET HORLER
Musical Director JOAN TOWNSEND
Piano JESSICA HILLMAN
Drums DAVE LINSEN
Trumpet CHRIS THOMAS
This production was entered for the
"Cinderella Trophy"
gaining 83/100
and "A" grading
REVIEW - Bristol Evening Post Wednesday October 20th 1971 - A PROVOCATIVE PIECE OF THEATRE
"Oh What a Lovely War", Weston-super-Mare Dramatic Society,
Weston Playhouse.
With this gutsy, bouncy and impertinent piece of war mickey-
taking, Weston Dramatic Society go over the top with great
energy and courage.
They need both to bring it off, for as a stage presentation this
pierrot-troupe knock at the 1914-18 war is littered with booby
traps.
Yet this company miss all the traps and a courageous choice is
justified.
Those whose memories go back to World War I - and remember
they believed it was the war to end all wars - may find some of
the flippancy galling.
Younger people - and there were plenty in the opening night
audience in Weston Playhouse last night - may have found some
of the material downright boring.
But like it or not, this is a stimulating and provocative piece of
theatre with 23 players playing some 150 different parts.
Inevitably, there could have been more forthright attack in the
solo songs, but individual vocal weaknesses were more than
compensated for by individual performances - notably, a series
of military cameos by Ray Edbrooke.
Other societies in the town - and those roundabout - with theatre
workshop ambitions, and a yearning to get away from the more cozy and less daunting stage presentations will find plenty to learn from this break-away bid by Weston Dramatic Society.
And theatregoers in search of something different these wintry nights will find it a warming experience too. Eric Hopkinson
