Cold Comfort Farm

A play by Paul Doust
adapted from the novel by Stella Gibbons
Performed May 1994


Directed by Beryl Rees

Characters in order of appearance: 

Aunt Ada Doom 
Flora Poste 
Charles/ Seth Starkadder
Mr. Neck 
Judith Starkadder
Rennet 
Adam Lainbsbreath
Elfine Starkadder 
Urk / Richard Hawk-Monitor
Reuben Starkadder 
Amos Starkadder/ Sneller
Mrs. Hawk-Monitor
Photographer 
Nancy Reeves
Helen Barter
Nick Hobden 
Walther Schoonenberg
Carolyn Taylor 
Pauline Durham 
Dave Headey 
Debbie Lock 
Alan Taylor 
Mike Durham 
Roger Leitch 
Carole Tappenden 
Steven Lewis 

The Chorus, Quivering Brethren and various Starkadders: 

Jill Headey 
Joan Lee 
Kate Lord 
Kate Peer 
Irene Schoonenberg 
Jeni Summerfield 

Starkadder children / Quivering Children: 

Louise Benton 
Louise Butler 
Claire Green 
Philip Hurst 
Julian Probert 
Paul Summerfield 

Hawk-Monitor guests at the Ball and the Wedding: 
(from the Impetus School of Dancing, Swindon) 

Henry Adams 
Alan Batchelor 
Dot Batchelor 
June Coombs 
Gordon Francis 
Mary Francis 
Celia Lewin 
Charles Lewin 
Eric Yetman 
Maisie Yetman 

Production Team:

Continuity 
Stage management 


Properties 

Set design
Set construction 


Special props 
Costumes 

Lighting 

Sound 
Front of House 





Publicity 

Ticket Sales 
Programmes 
Deirdre Hamley 
Jo & Peter Webster
Joan Hurst 
Carole Tappenden 
Jo Webster 
Carole Tappenden 
Jo Webster 
Jo & Peter Webster 
Carole & Jim Tappenden 
Irene.& Walther Schoonenberg 
Jim Tappenden 
Joan Lee 
Jeni Summerfield 
Tim Reeves 
Steven Lewis 
Melanie Pallett 
Ruth, Christina and Rory Willett 
Mary Green 
Denise Monk 
Eileen Drew 
Joyce Carter 
Roland Quinney 
Tim Reeves 
Walther Schoonenberg 
Irene Schoonenberg 
Dave Headey 

We would like to thank: 

Jean Dodson and Gerry Martin of the Impetus School of Dancing for arranging the dances, Faringdon Travel for the sale of tickets, and Mary Green who modelled for publicity and poster photographs.

Special thanks to Ian Ashby and the Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group for additional fighting equipment; to Mark Hare for posters; to the Cotswold Motor Museum and Toy Collection for the loan of the tricycle; to the Vale & Downland Museum, Wantage, for the loan of the yoke; to Sudbury House Hotel for the ice bucket; to John Nicholls (Hanging Baskets) for greenery; to Bowlers for the loan of buckets; to Faringdon Camera Club for photographs, and to Steven Lewis for the loan of the camera.