A Victorian Entertainment
Dedicated to our late friend Lesley Moore
The Little Theatre, Donnington, Shropshire
May 2012
Victorian music and two One Act plays
The first was written by Brian J
Burton who wrote several plays including Three Hisses for Villainy, a
composition of three One Act plays - One Month To Pay Or The Sailor's
Return; The Drunkard's Wife Or The Tables Turned; The Gypsy Curse Or
The
Flower Of The Tribe.
Little Theatre presented One Month To Pay, the story of desperate cottage tenant who is struggling to pay the rent on her cottage while her Sailor husband is away at distant shores.
The second, The Day of Reckoning, written by Michael Kilgarriff, featured an all-female cast and charts the sudden change in fortune of a poor but honest widow and her daughter.
Rehearsal/Backstage Photographs:
Performance Numbers
Act 1
1. | Minuet & Badinerie | Nykkö Mikaël Grégoire & Kate Prentice | |
2. | Sweet Genevieve | Michael Rawlings & Company | |
3. | I Want to Sing in Opera | Carol Robertson | |
4 | I Love You | Susan Rawlings | |
5 | Grandmother's Chair | Stuart Lee | |
7 | The Spider and the Fly | Michael Rawlings & Susan Rawlings |
One Month to Pay - Director - Carol Robertson
Alice Collins | Vikki Lee | |
Mary | Cynthia Shaw | |
Mrs Bentley | Gina Ryder | |
Joe | Bill Walton | |
Squire Meadows | Andy Reed | |
Tom | Stuart Lee |
Act 2
1. | Nocturne in C# Minor | Nykkö Mikaël Grégoire | |
2. | I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen | Bill Walton | |
3. | Kind Sir, You Cannot Have a Heart | Vikki Lee | |
4 | The Snow Storm | Cynthia Shaw | |
5 | Oh Susanna | Andy Reed | |
6 | The Holy City | Gina Ryder | |
7 | If We're Weak Enough to Tarry | Michael Rawlings & Susan Rawlings |
The Day of Reckoning - Director - Cynthia Shaw
Mrs Goodheart | Carol Robertson | |
Prudence Goodheart | Kay Bishop | |
Mrs Tubbs | Carol Melhuish | |
Lady Audley | Cynthia Shaw reading in for Lesley Moore | |
Dr Matilda Probity | Zoe Hailey |
The Production Team:
Producer | Cynthia Shaw | |
Rehearsal Pianist | Nykkö Mikaël Grégoire | |
Flautist | Kate Prentice | |
Set | Stewart Lee, Alan Shaw & Cast Members | |
Set Decor | Ladies of the Cast | |
Lighting/Sound | Richard Foxcroft | |
Costumes | The Directors | |
Stage Crew | Sarah Taylor | |
Box Office | Denise Olenik, Jenny Oakley & Jill Hine | |
Type setting | Alan Shaw | |
Bar Manager | Ian Martin | |
Photography | Ian Martin |
The
Performers:
Stewart Lee | Kay Bishop | Zoe Hailey |
Sue Rawlings | Mary Lee | Michael Rawlings |
Carol Melhuish | Andy Reed | Vikki Lee |
Carol Robertson | Kate Prentice | Georgina Ryder |
Bill Walton | Cynthia Shaw | Nykkö Mikaël Grégoire |