Visiting Hour

Four short plays by Richard Harris
Performed in November 1995 at the Faringdon Corn Exchange


Directors:  Helen Barter (Plaster, Keeping Mum),
                 Dave Headey (Show Business), 
                 Debbie Lock (Magic)

Producer: Helen Barter

Characters in order of appearance:

1. Plaster 

Eric
Helen
Alistair Warner 
Kate Lord 

2. Show Business

Fiona
Naomi
Maureen
Julia
Darbon 
Nurse
1st woman
2nd woman 
Father
Mother
Daughter
Son-in-law
Critic
Woman critic
Jo Webster
Carole Tappenden
Jeni Summerfield 
Debbie Lock
Roger Leitch
Duncan Graham
Beryl Rees
Joan Lee
Walther Schoonenberg
Irene Schoonenberg
Kate Peer
Robert Wentworth
Peter Webster
Beryl Rees

3. Keeping Mum 

Pauline
Old woman
Carolyn Taylor 
Irene Schoonenberg 

4. Magic

May
Arthur
Sandra
Brenda
Ron
Joan 
Beryl Rees
Dave Headey
Lucy Walden
Joan Lee
Peter Webster
Jo Webster 

Production Team:

Lighting
Prompt
Costumes 

Set design 
Set construction 


Publicity 
Ticket sales
Front-of-House
Alan Taylor
Liz Kilpatrick
Joan Lee 
Jeni Summerfield
Jo Webster
Jim Tappenden
Walther Schoonenberg
Peter Webster 
Walther Schoonenberg
Irene Schoonenberg
Muriel Dawkins
Denise Monk 
Irene Schoonenberg
Walther Schoonenberg
Jim Tappenden
Ieuan Thomas
Ruth Willett 

Medical advice by Joan Hurst

We would like to thank Breath of Spring for ticket sales, Richard Clarke and Lancelyn Lighting for invaluable professional assistance with the lighting, Faringdon Infants School for additional staging, and Faringdon United Church for a rehearsal venue.

Visiting Hour is the first production of the newly-formed Faringdon Dramatic Society. We would like to thank you, the audience, for your continued support in this new venue. You will appreciate that a lot of things we took for granted have had to be re-thought and this has, of course, meant a lot more work. It is your presence that has made it all worthwhile!

A special word of thanks is due to the staff of the Corn Exchange and everyone responsible for it whose co-operation and forbearance in this new venture have been much appreciated.