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

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