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Off the Rails

24/11/1979

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By John Waterhouse
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 24 November - 1 December 1979

Cast:
Maudie Bentwhistle - Julie Ann Jones
Harry Bentwhistle - Arthur Chapman
Gladys Gentwhistle - Rusyl Ryman
Percy Hollis - Richard Parsons
Bertha Keepbright - Diana Shirtcliff
Colonel Throgmorton - Ross Inkster
Miss Hickory - Diane Callanan
Aneurim Jenkins - Maurice Barnes
Sam McNab - Denzil Downs
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Sweet Bird of Youth

3/11/1979

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By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Gladys Thin

Season: 3 - 10 November 1979

The story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra del Lago (travelling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. The main reason for his homecoming is to get back what he had in his youth: primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before.

Cast:
Chance Wayne - Norman Cox
Princess Kosmonopolis - Helen White
Fly - David Peters
George Scudder - Richard Whyte
Hatcher - Ron Robson
Boss Finley - Ten Maginness
Tom Junior - Rex Grainger
Aunt Nonnie - Judith Armstrong
Heavenley Finley - Marguerite Hickey
Charles - Graham Anderson
Stuff - Euan Harris
Miss Lucy - Mary Gray
The Heckler - Peter Elliott
Violet - Margaret Docherty
Edna - Kerry Lang
Scotty - Terry O'Cain
Bud - Graham Anderson 
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Old King Cole

18/8/1979

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By Ken Campbell
Directed by David Eddy

Season: 18 - 25 August 1979
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One Act Plays 1979

30/7/1979

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Season: ​30 July - 4 August 1979
Ephemera Two Zero
By Joe V Graber
Directed by Alex Henderson

Cast:
Shadow One - Jenny Connors
Shadow Two - Gaye Billens
Shadow Three - Jackie Meldrum
Mother - Pauline Rutledge
Grace Purloo - Averil Taylor
Stg Meece - Chris Donovan
Rev Hearty - Bob Nimmo
Toni - Marion Edwards
Mr Glover - Brent Keen
Kevin - Thomas Perry
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes, Translated by Dudley Fitts
Directed by Gladys Thin

Cast:
Lysistrata - Rosalind Peek
Kalonike - Shona McIntosh
Myrrhine - Marguerite Hickey
Lampito - Lyn Waldergrave
Commissioner - Donald Bruce
Kinesias - Peter Fitzgerald
Spartan Herald - David Anderson
Ambassador - Bill Pearce
Foryphaios - Terry O'Cain
Stratyllis - Peggy Bell
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A Song at Twilight

19/5/1979

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By Noel Coward
Directed by Alison Alston

Season: ​19 - 26 May 1979
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This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women, one being his wife of convenience for twenty years, the other, one of his former loves. There is a bit of the detective story in this, too, for the former flame produces some old love letters which she is about to turn over to a biographer. He is dead set against it, for it would compromise his impeccable reputation until she produces still another set of love letters, even more damaging, written to a male friend of his early youth. It remains for the wife of convenience to say that she has known about this all along, and to send the old flame off with an entirely different opinion. The blackmail fails, but the rue remains.

Cast:
Hilde - Beryl McLeod
Felix - James Jorgensen
Hugo - Mervyn Glue
Carlotta - Pauline Huggins
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Writer's Cramp

21/2/1979

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By John Byrne
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 21 Feb - 3 March 1979

We follow Scottish writer FS McDade's ill-fated career from boarding school through Oxford, World War II and various publishing misadventures, up to his death in penury...

Cast:
FS McDade - Chris Donovan
Narrator / Dr Arthur Quigey / Charles Bentwood Brazil / Mrs Thelma McDate - Graeme Randle
Double Davis / Reader / Crusty / Mrs Ripper / Malcolm / Father Mannion - Chris Moriaty
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Blue Beard

18/11/1978

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By Trudy West
Directed by Taura Henderson
Choreography by Elizabeth Robinson

Season: 18 - 25 November 1978

Cast:
Bluebeard - Donald Graham
Fatima - Melissa Miles
Sister Anne - Elsie Malkin
Count Ten - Terry Toner
Louis - Shona Mackintosh
Phooey - Siobhan Graham
Rudolph - Brenda Bradley
Madame La Snoop - Julie-Anne Jones
Boloney - Graeme Randle
Lucille - Janice Milne
Simon - Warwick Franklin
Serfs - Terry O'Cain, Wayne Ross, Gerard Pinn,
   Kerry Lang
Peasants, Maids and Guests - Carole Rout,
  Yvette Swords, Carol Gray, Alison Malkin,
  Terry O'Cain, Wayne Ross, Gerard Pinn,
  Barbara Stewart, Moray Johnstone, Kerry Lang
Special Dancers - Carole Rout, Cheryl Hitchcock,
  Yvette Swords, Alison Malkin, Moray Johnstone,
  Judy Bottomly
"The Freaks of Castle Creeps" - Shona Mackintosh,
  Siobhan Graham, Terry Toner, Barbara Stewart

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The Sea

23/9/1978

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By Edward Bond
Directed by David Eddy

Season: ​23 - 30 September 1978

The Sea is a comedy set in an East Coast village in 1907. The action centres around the drowning of a young man and the repercussions, emotional and political, it has on the tight, inward-looking village community.

Cast:
Willy Carson - Wayne Reeves
Evens - Miles Taylor
Hatch - Alastair Cameron-Brown
Mrs Louise Rafi - Irene MacDonald
Mrs Jessica Tilehouse - Elody Rathgen
Hollarcut - Max Dyhrberg
Thompson - Paul Sutherland
Carter - Ken Bye
Rose Jones - Siobhan Graham
Mafanwy Price - Mary Gray
Rachel - Julie-Anne Jones
Jilly - Adele Courtman
Vicar - Robert Davidson
Davis - Margaret Dawson
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The Perils of Priscilla

10/9/1978

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By Schubert Fendrick
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 10 September 1978, 17 September 1978 - ​Dinner theatre at the Wine Cellar Restaurant
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One Act Plays 1978

25/7/1978

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Season: ​25 -29 July 1978
No Why
By John Whiting
Directed by Andrew Davidge

Cast:
Jacob - Richard Newman
Henry - Donald Bruce
Eleanor - Margaret Rose
Max - Colin Brown
Sarah - Lyn Waldergrave
Amy - Anne Jones
Gregory - Allan Wilson
1st Servant - Graeme Randle
2nd Servant - Peter Randle
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When the Bough Breaks
By Alistair Campbell
Directed by Alison Alston

Cast:
Kate - Sue Scrivener
Mathew - Chris Donovan
Sister / Mother / Chairwoman - Frances Pattinson
Warner / Father / Grandfather - David Eddy
Patient / Jill - Janice Milne
Colin / Ralph - Max Dyhrbert
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Life of Hercules-Page One
By Thomas Cruden
Directed by Gladys Thin

Cast:
Amphitryon - Richard Dibble
Alcmene - Diana Verey
Battus - Tom Joel
Chloe - Judith Wasley
Doris - Gaye Billens
Evadne - Rusyl Ryman
Mercury - Norman Cox
Jove - Richard Dibble
Juno - Helen White
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