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Sweeney Todd the Barber Semi Detached An Evening of Stoppard The Arsonists Man of the Moment Oh! What a Lovely War Only Free Men

• Semi Detached

• 25th Oct - 1st Nov
• Written by: David Turner
• Directed by: Stella Stone
• Performance Times: Sat 19:45, Mon 19:45, Tue 19:45, Wed 19:45, Thu 19:45, Fri 19:45, Sat 14:45, Sat 19:45

Directors Notes

‘If your god is respectability and you have a position to keep up with your neighbours, then it is a good thing for you to be by nature an ingenious twister.’ That would seem to be moral of David Turner’s play. Fred Midway is the pillar of society in question, he is also apparently a model citizen until, one Sunday he is threatened with disaster when the love lives of his three children come to an unfortunate and simultaneous crisis. Only Fred has the low cunning to solve the problems and supported by his loving wife ‘restore his foot on the heights again’.

The play is set in the class conscious 60s and resembles a Restoration Comedy in that the characters are symbolic, their names reflecting their characteristics,and there are asides to the audience.

Fred Midway is played by Adrian Bowd and his wife, Hilda, by Christine Murphy.Their two daughters,Eileen and Avril, are played by Jennifer Henley and Lyn Fernee and the young son by Gareth Brighton. The respective partners, Robert and Nigel are played by Sean O,Neill and Alex Lahoud and Joyce Fisher ,as Mrs. Hadfield and Robert Leeds , as Mr. Makepiece represent those higher up the social scale.

On a sadder note, of the many plays that I have directed at Lewes Theatre Club dear Paddy Cull has been involved in every one.Although it will never be the same without her,I am sure she will be with us in spirit and I would like to dedicate this production to her.

Stella Stone