Harlequinade
by
Terence Rattigan
Produced by Mabel Evans
17th - 20th December, 1952
Produced as a double bill along with The Browning Version.
The opening night is in the town of Brackley in the English Midlands. The principal characters are Arthur and his wife Edna (who play Romeo and Juliet) and the stage manager Jack. Arthur is horrified to be confronted by his grown up daughter (Muriel) and grandchild, of neither of whose existences he had been aware. To discover that he's a grandfather just before playing Romeo is too much for him. They later learn that he's still married to Muriel's mother (Flossie) and that he is bigamously married to Edna.
| Arthur Gosport |
George Wilson |
| Edna Selby |
Iris Parnell |
| Johnny |
John Martin |
| Dame Maud Gosport |
Gwenneth Frost |
| Jack Wakefield |
John Padmore-Morgan |
| George Chudleigh |
S E Crookell |
| First Halberdier |
John Moody |
| Second Halberdier |
Arthur Muir |
| Miss Fishlock |
Gertrude Wright |
| Muriel Palmer |
Audrey Hughes |
| Tom Palmer |
John Southern |
| Mr Burton |
H B Hamnett |
| Joyce Langland |
Rosemary J Broady |
| Policeman |
Raymond H Cole |
| Stage Manager |
Donald Pearse |
| Assistant Stage Manager |
Donald Aston |
| Lighting |
John Guinan |
| Property Mistress |
Kathleen Aston
Pat Richardson |
| Wardrobe Mistress |
Clelia Dixon
Joan Guinan |
| Make Up Artiste |
Catherine Glancey |
| Sound Effects |
Reginald Dodd |
| Set Design and execution |
The Green Room |
| House Manager |
S Rhodes |
| Deputy House Manager |
G R B Dixon |
| Interval Music |
Kathleen McGhie
Joan Willcock
Laurence Povall |
| Lighting equipment by STRAND ELECTRIC and The Green Room |
| Furniture supplied by GIMBERT'S OF PRESTWICH |
| Telephone kindly lent by THE GPO |
| Cigarettes by SOBRANIE LTD |
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