49

Post Horn Gallop

A farce by Derek Benfield
Wednesday 8 June 1966 - Saturday 11 June 1966
The Little Theatre, Old Royal Marines Camp, Butts Close, Faringdon
Directed by Evelyn Stoodley

post-horn-gallop-1966-photoIn the ancestral home the nerve-shattered Chester is again menaced at every turn by his old enemies Capone and Wedgwood. In the ancestral flowerbeds Lord Elrood lurks with his shotgun, ready to repel attacks by the butcher’s boy, the postman, and other desperate characters. Through the ancestral living-room wander Maggie and Bert, come for two-and-sixpence-worth of gawp and suitably awestruck by the goings-on of the country house set, or, to put it another way, inmates. The plot is somehow concerned with missing pictures.

Cast (in order of appearance):

Ada - Carole Harrison
Lord Elrood - Sam Heath
Lady Elrood - Edith Stevens
Patricia - Rosemary Wilkes
Miss Partridge - Kathleen Hill
Chester Dreadnought - Norman Pickles
Bert - Ted Capel
Maggie - Beryl Edgington
Mr Capone - William Reeves
Mr Wedgwood - George Young
George Willis - Ron Bradbury

Production No.49 (4 shows were performed over 4 days)