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Tattletale Mary             Terry Grimwood 1996

Directed by Terry Grimwood
Director's Note
December 1888 and the friends and family of the Reverend Frederick Talbot are gathering in Abbotsfield rectory for an evening of polite fellowship. But their secure little world of unassailable Victorian respectability is about to shattered when dark, long hidden secrets are revealed and terrible vengence unleashed, in the form of a certain, now infamous, serial killer fresh from the streets of faraway Whitechapel.
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CAST LIST
Voice - John Cooney
Mary Talbot - Lesley McMaster
Rev. Frederick Talbot - Adrian Howlett
Katie - Louise Paine
Elizabeth Talbot - Sarah Caddick
Dr. Jonathon Riplay - Patrick Cooney
Major Langley - Michael Hedington
Henrietta Langley - Pat Pomphrey
Emily Langley - Myra Daines
Rev. Robert Talbot - Steve Lyes
Jane Talbot - Leanne Culham
George Samuels - Reg Balmforth
​Demon - Amanda Cunningham
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The shop at sly corner   By Edward Percy 1997

Directed by Lesley McMaster 
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First presented in 1945, "The Shop At Sly Corner" ran in the West End of London for four years, was subsequently made into a film and has been a favourite "thriller" performed at theatres throughout the U.K.
It tells the story of widower, Descius Heiss, owner of an antique shop and to all appearances, a respectable gentleman - but actually involved in the buying and selling of stolen jewels and their safe disposal. His chief ain is to provide happiness and security for his daughter Margaret and to keep her in ignorance of his crime-ridden past and current nefarious activities - but there is someone else who discovers his secret............
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CAST LIST
Descius Heiss - Michael Hedington
Archie Fellowes - Steve Lyes
Margaret Heiss - Cathy Beckett
Joan Deal - Sarah Caddick
Mathilde Heiss - Pat Pomphrey
Mrs Catt - Joan French
Robert Graham - Patrick Cooney
Corder Morris - Reg Balmforth
Steve Hubbard - Richard Howlett
​John Elliot - Adrian Howlett
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Not now Darling             By Ray Cooney & John Chapman

Directed by Reg Balmforth
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A girl with no clothes, a seducer with no morals and a designer with no idea! These are the ingredients which make 'Not Now Darling' a feast of laughter. Gilbert Bodley embarks on the seduction of the lovely Janie McMichael, only to have his plans thwarted by the very man he is trying to cuckold. Afterwards, all attempts he makes to bring success to his plan, seem to be unwittingly turned against him by his partner, Arnold Crouch. When his wife returns unexpectedly Gilbert is forced to move suspicion to someone else. So, keep a close eye on the action and an ear tuned to the invention of a man destined to have something thrust upon him, even if it isn't greatness!
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CAST LIST
Miss Whittington - Lisa Phillips
Arnold Crouch - John Ely
Miss Tipdale - Carol Andrews
Mrs Frencham - Doris Brynley-Jones
Gilbert Bodley - Reg Balmforth
Comdr Frencham - Michael Hedington
Harry McMichael - Steve Lyes
Jane McMichael - Sarah Caddick
Sue Lawson - Leanne Culham
Maude Bodley - Moira Stephenson
​Mr Lawson - Julian Mettrick
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HABEUS CORPUS         Alan Bennett 1997

Directed by Jane Rackham
(assisted by Clive Brynley -Jones)
Director's Notes

Alan Bennett has taken the traditional characters and situations of farce, trouser dropping, rushing in and out of doors, the cheeky maidservant, the pompous prog, the thrusting clergyman Canon Throbbing and welded them into a satirical saucy sideswipe at the swinging sixties.
The fun is fast and furious, the message and the moral non-existent and following examples from Plautus to Pinero and from Wilde to the Goons, Bennett has concocted a cocktail to be enjoyed without worrying too much about its ingredients.
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CAST LIST
Arthur Wickstead - Reg Balmforth
Muriel Wickstead - Jacqueline Lee
Dennis Wickstead - Steve Lyes
Constance Wickstead - Sarah Caddick
Mrs Swabb - Louise Paine
Canon Throbbing - Gary Sharman
Lady Rumpers - Rita Drake
Felicity Rumpers - Leanne Culham
Mr Shanks - John Ely
Sir Percy Shorter - Michael Hedington
​Mr Purdue - Sam Slade

Wild Goose chase                       By Derek Benfield 1998

Directed by Clive Brynley-Jones
(assisted by Doris Brynley-Jones)
Director's Note

Wild Goose Chase' is set in the baronial hall of Elrood Castle. It is morning on a day in summer. Into the eccentric family of Lord Elrrod arrives the even more bizarre character of Chester Dreadnought. Chester is under the impression (correctly) that he is being hunted by two underworld characters. He has to avoid their attention as far as he can. How successfully or otherwise you can judge for yourselves. I hope you enjoy the chase.
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CAST LIST
Ada - Sarah Caddick
Lord Elrood - Adrian Howlett
Patricia - Louise Paine
Lady Elrood - Pat Pomphrey
Jenny Stewart - Moira Stephens
Miss Partridge - Lesley McMaster
Chester Dreadnought - John Ely
Capone - Reg Balmforth
Wedgwood - Sam Slade
​Hilary Pond - Steve Lyes
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