CELEBRATION
Programme & Press Cuttings
Production Date: October 1975
Directed by: Nancy Forsdike
Genre: Comedy
Group: BHTC
Staged: The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill
SYNOPSIS:
A comedy in two parts - 'The Wedding' and 'The Funeral'- both concerning the same family. In the first episode we see the family preparing for a wedding. There’s the cars, the photographer, the seating arrangements and critical remarks from the groom’s relations don’t exactly help!
In the second episode six months later, the family return for the funeral of their Uncle Arthur and are confronted by the deceased’s live-in (and uninvited) girlfriend.
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Wardrobe
Set Design.
Properties
Lighting & Effects
Prompt
Front Of House
Box Office
Frank Oakley
Margaret Coveney
Norma Somerville
Brian Rhead
Brenda Keyes & Susan Wilson
Peter Coveney, Charles Briggs,
Denise Briggs & Mick Pate
Joan Collins
Joan O'Meara
Pam Jefferies
Crew
CELEBRATION
Cast
Playwrights: Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
PLAYWRIGHTS:
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall co-wrote some of the most highly-acclaimed and successful plays of the time. 'Billy Liar' and 'Whistle Down the Wind' are just two of their well known plays, but they also wrote the screenplays for the TV series 'Budgie' and 'Worzel Gummidge
Celebration was written in 1961.
Christine Lucas
Rhoda Lucas
Edgar Lucas
Jack Lucas
Irene Howes
Lillian Howes
Frank Broadbent
Arthur Broadbent
Stan Dyson
Bernard Fuller
Edna Fuller
Alice Fuller
Lionel Fuller
Margo Fuller
May Beckett
Sgt. Maj. Tommy Lodge
Photos
Jacqueline Shury
Jo White
Peter Martin
Leon Figg
Ena Barron
Sheila Newell
Anthony White
John Poulson
Peter Clark
Alan Carter
Barbara Chamberlain
Jean Poulson
Rick Peckham
Sheila Tapner
Pauline Rhead
Peter Case
BHTC Production Number: 88
