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THE IRREGULAR VERB TO LOVE

THE IRREGULAR VERB TO LOVE

Directed by:  John Poulson

Genre:  Comedy 

Group:  BHTC

Staged:  The Park Centre, Burgess Hill

Jennifer Taylor

Douglas Kershaw

Barbara Chamberlain

Leon Figg

Elizabeth Batten

Nancy Forsdike

John McDonnell

Joan Collins

Roy Schofield

 

Cast

Lucy Beckett

Michael Vickers

Mrs Counter

Andrew Rankin

Fedra

Hedda Rankin

Felix Rankin

Rachel Stone

Mr Andrikos

Crew

Douglas Kershaw

Peter Wyatt

Yvonne Jones

Jo White

Ann Woodgate & Roger Hamlyn

Bernard Clayman

Jim Towell

Sonia Murgatroyd

John Beacon

 

Stage Manager

Stage Designer

Wardrobe

Prompt

Properties

Business Manager

Front of House

Publicity

Box Office

Synopsis: 

 

Hedda Rankin, wife of a zoo official, returns from prison to her London home to find out what her family have been up to whilst she's been away. Her husband has not been faithful, her daughter's got rid of her own husband and is now pregnant by another man and her son has brought a Greek girl back with him from abroad, who can speak no other language.

 

Hedda sets out to bring her household to its senses, but it is her husband who eventually puts things right, while she takes the credit....

 

Programme 

Playwrights:  Hugh Williams &

Margaret Williams

Production Date:  1967

PLAYWRIGHT:  Hugh Williams and Margaret Williams were a husband and wife writing team who wrote a number of plays together. Hugh (born 1904) was an English actor and dramatist of Welsh descent who became a popular stage and major film star in the British Cinema of the 1930s.   Margaret 'Vyner' Williams was an Australian born actress and dramatist, who married Hugh Williams in 1940. Apart from 'The Irregular Verb To Love', they also wrote 'The Grass is Greener' (1960).

BHTC Production Number: 41

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