Synopsis:

An end of the pier dance marathon becomes a desperate fight to survive for a luckless band of desperate contestants. Each hope that they will take home the life-changing $1000 prize fund or grab their big chance at Hollywood fame. A lurid reality contest that challenges the human spirit and pushes its participants to the very edge of sanity, this is a macabre test of endurance during the 1930s depresion in America. Profoundly desperate and disturbingly exciting.

BHTC NOTES: Burgess Hill Theatre Club were the first amateur group in the United Kingdom to be allowed license from the playwright to produce the play. As detailed in the attached press articles, Director Charles Lewis corresponded directly with the author to get this permission.

Awards

The Mid Sussex Times Drama Awards:

Winner: Best Producer / Director - Charles Lewis & Best Performance In A Musical Drama - Jackie Lander

(See Article Below in Press Cuttings).

PLAYWRIGHT: Ray Herman adapted from the book by Horace McCoy.

Directed by: Charles Lewis

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Barry Goodsell
Mike Akhurst

Colin Skeel

Norma Somerville

Charles Lewis

Helen Wiggins

Jackie Lander & John Kitson

Linda Parry & Geoff Braman 

Julia Clark & Rick Peckham 

Phillipa Jones & Kevin Gray 

Chris Smith & Jennifer Kitson

Helen Smith & Adrian Cave

June Colledge

Jim Towell

Jo White

Maureen Thomas

Frank Oakley

Hannah Batten

Christine Lewry

Paul Klimek