Programme & Photos
Production Date: October 1989
Directed by: Paul Hartley
Playwright: Alan Ayckbourn
Genre: Comedy
Group: BHTC
Staged: The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill
Synopsis:
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years.
The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbour. Next there are the architect and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat. Then the bank manager and his wife are in their large, slightly modernized, old Victorian style kitchen.
Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas parties, is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to material prosperity and independence and the decline of the others .
PLAYWRIGHT: Alan Ayckbourn CBE (born April 12, 1939) is a popular and prolific English playwright.
Stage Manager
Set Construction Team
Technical Sound & Lighting Team
Properties
Box Office
Front of House
Terry Thompsett
Terry Thompsett, Keith Griffiths, Tony Hole,
Graham Wood, Laurie Parsons & Rob Negus
Peter Coveney, Brenda Upton, Richard Griffin,
Harry Peckham, Roy Lewry, Ben Dawson,
Christine Lewry & Theresa Hart
Hilaty Kelland, Pat Griffiths & Helen Wiggins
Graham Wood
Val Thompsett
Crew
Cast
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
Chris Smith
Jacky Hartley
John Kitson
Linda Parry
Anthony Hole
Pearl White
Terry Thompsett
Pat Griffiths
George
Sidney
Jane
Geoffrey
Eva
Ronald
Marion
Voice of Dick Potter
Voice of Lottie Potter
George The Dog
BHTC Production Number: 149