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October 2007
LADIES IN RETIREMENT
Edward Percy & Reginald Denham
CAST
Lucy Gilham
Magda Kleszcz
Leonora Fiske
Esme Tyers
Ellen Creed
Linda Hampson
Albert Feather
Tony Miller
Louisa Creed
Helene Wilson
Emily Creed
Tessa van Gelderen
Sister Theresa
Sybil Conway
Directed
by
Anne Gerrard
BEHIND THE SCENES
Stage Manager Gerry
Tivers
Assistant Director
Bryan Hourihane
Set Design
Rosemary Ernest
Properties
Sue O'Connell & Esme Tyers
Lighting
Ernst Srevit
Sound Laurence
Conway
On the Book Barry
Serjent
Costumes
Jenny Loomes
Pianist
Lewis Lev
Written in the 1940's but set in the Victorian era, this favourite old thriller is full of wonderful characters. A retired
chorus girl from the music-hall is living on the edge of the Kent marshes quite contentedly, until her companion's strange sisters
come to stay .... and stay .... and stay.
Tensions mount and are complicated by the appearance of a bank clerk of dubious morality
and a cheeky nature. The local convent plays an unwitting part as well as highlighting religious differences.
This is a
play presenting us with past attitudes, vices and virtues and has an interestingly enigmatic conclusion.
