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23/5/1978

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By Barbara Hedley
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 23 May - 3 June 1978

The action takes place in the home of the Shanks family in a suburb of Christchurch and adjacent to a bike gang's residence. 

Cast:
Edward Cotton - Denzil Downs
Graham Shanks - Norman Cox
Margret Shanks - Julie-Anne Jones
Susan - Anne Jones
Vitty - Chris Moriarity
Ian Bobinder - Les Bush
Grunter - Graeme Randle
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Something to Talk About

16/4/1978

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By Eden Phillpotts
Directed by Alison Alston

Season:16 April, 23 April 1978 - Dinner theatre at the Wine Cellar Restaurant
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Run to the Round House Nellie, He Can't Corner You There

12/3/1978

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By Schubert Fendrick
Directed by Gladys Thin

Season: 12 March, 19 March 1978 - ​Dinner theatre at the Wine Cellar Restaurant
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The Happy Apple

11/3/1978

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By Jack Pulman
Directed by Stewart Robertson

Season: 11 - 18 March 1978 

Freddie, Arthur and Murray have started up their own advertising firm but things are not going too well. As Murray talks to the important client, Porter and Kenilworth are stripping his office of unpaid-for goods. Kenilworth seems a strange sort of removal man, unusually acquainted with classical music and literature. The pardners suddenly discover in Nancy, their young secretary, an ideal person on whom to build advertising schemes - a perfect 'median type'; ie, average. Kenilworth is also pressed to service to bring culture to the very philistine Murray. The firm prospers, but unfortunately the "culture drug" has unexpected side effects on Nancy, who is also chased by the important client for other reasons. Eventually she explodes in a bombshell.

Cast:
Nancy Gray - Siobhan Graham
Charles Murray - Chris Donovan
Bassington - Ray Stocks
Arthur Spender - Doug Weir 
Freddie Maine - Peter Hart
Kenilworth - Dmitiri Gibara
Miss Wheeler - Carole Rout
George Porter - David Warwick
Jascha Kornitz - David Cooper
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The Bare Facts

13/11/1977

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By Janet Monroe
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 13 and 20 November 1977 - Dinner theatre at the Wine Cellar Restaurant
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Lock up Your Daughters

12/11/1977

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Book by Bernard Miles
Music by Laurie Johnson
Lyrics by Lionel Bart

Directed by Gladys Thin
Musical Direction by Ranald McDonald
Choreography by Jean Jones

Season: 12 - 19 November 1977

In London, 1735, naive young Hilaret leaves the over-protective walls of her father's house resolved to elope with her beloved Captain Constant. She charges Ramble with rape, and her maid Cloris charges Constant with rape. The cases are tried by the corrupt justice, Mr. Squeezum.

Cast:
Stapp, a Constable - Terry O'Cain
A Gentleman - Denis Allen
Watchmen - Warwick Franklin, Grant Waghorn
Squeezum, a corrupt Justice - Maurice Barnes
Quill, Squeezum's Clerk - Brett Collings
Mrs Squeezum - Helen White
Sotmore - Norman Cox
Ramble - Cliff Lather
Brazencourt, an Innkeeper - Chris Donovan
Wenches - Carol Holloman, Karilyn Pettigrew, Jean Jones
Politic, a coffee house politician - Craig Dixon
Hilaret, Politic's daughter - Diana Verey
Cloris, Hilaret's maid - Jilaine Johnson
Dabble, Politic's friend - Ray Stock
Faithful, Politic's servant - Margaret Eddington
Worthy, an honest Justice - Steven Betts
Captain Constant, a military gallant - Roger Rynd
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18/9/1977

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By Terrence McNally
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 18 and 25 September 1977 - ​Dinner theatre at the Wine Cellar Restaurant
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Happy Birthday Wanda June

17/9/1977

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By Kurt Vonnegut
Directed by Stewart Robertson

Season: 17 September - 1 October 1977

A woman with a little boy has two suitors: a doctor and a vacuum cleaner salesman. Her husband, a famous big-game hunter and adventurer, disappeared years ago in the Amazon. She is about to be declared a widow when in he walks, khaki breeches, puttees, and all, together with the pilot with whom he crashed in the Amazon valley. It happens to be his birthday, an event which all those present had decided to celebrate and for which they had just purchased a cake on the spur of the moment. The cake had been intended for somebody named Wanda June, who apparently never got to celebrate at all. The adventurer turns out to be a wild champion of havoc who alienates friends and demolishes violins. He fails in his effort to get his son to shoot him – the boy doesn’t believe in that kind of old-fashioned heroism – and then in his own effort to shoot himself. He is a social flop out.

Cast:
Penelope Ryan - Jennie Goodman
Paul Ryan - Colin Brown, Brendan Marsh
Harold Ryan - Peter Bool
Colonel Looseleaf Harper - Doug Clarke
Herb Shuttle - Stephen Betts
Dr Norbert Woodly - James Morris
Wanda June - Angela Rolinson, Catherine Iversen
Major Siegfried von Konigswald - Chris Donovan
Mildred - Dinah Barnfield  
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One Act Plays 1977

2/8/1977

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Season: ​2 - 6 August 1977
Black Comedy
By Peter Schaffer
Directed by ​Gladys Thin

Cast:
Brindley Miller -  Brian Phillips
Carol Melkett - Juliet Dowling
Miss Furnival - Frances Pattinson
Colonel Melkett - Chris Donovan
Harold Corringe - Norman Cox
Clea - Lin Waldergrave
Schuppanzigh - Keith Tonkin
George Bamburger - Craig Dixon
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The Tiger
By Murray Scisgal
Directed by ​Alison Alston

Cast:
Benjamin - Reg Barlow 
Gloria - Juliet Wilkinson
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Picnic on the Battlefield
By Fernando Arrakal
Directed by ​Andrew J Davidge

Cast:
Soldier - Pat McLauchlin
Father - Chris Boyles
Mother - Anne Jones
Zepo - Donald Bruce 
1st Stretcher Bearer - Graeme Randle
2nd Stretcher Bearer - Jennie Goodman
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The Collector

26/6/1977

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By Naftali Yavin
Directed by Michael West

Season: 26 June, 3 July 1977 - ​Dinner theatre at the Wine Cellar Restaurant
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