Cast

Dave Barber

David Burton

Val Howell

Jill Kennedy

Richard Wood

Sarah Gregg

Kathryn Hoyle

Marilyn Wade

Brian Andrews

Liz Ratcliffe

Directed by Yvonne Berry

After finishing 'Delayed Arrival' with even less people than when we started, it was time for a major recruitment drive. So we put an ad in the Hull Daily Mail and optimistically chose a play with a large (-ish) cast. And all the new people who turned up got parts. Then it was back to the enclosed environs of Spring Street Studio Theatre so getting all ten of the cast (and the furniture) on stage was a bit of a tight squeeze. Two of the audience had their feet in the fireplace and Richard had to die almost in the laps of the front row!

Hull Truck aren't exactly on my Christmas card list but their little Studio Theatre was a godsend to us in the early days with there being a lack of decent performing spaces in the centre of Hull and the Film Theatre being financially out of our reach for more than one production a year. So their arrogant and condescending attitude was just something we had to put up with. But working in the Studio, they tended to ignore us completely and leave us to our own devices, which was fine by us. All I can remember of the play is messing up the first scene on the dress rehearsal and having to start again. We also performed Act I in the All-England Theatre Festival. Never a good idea just to do half a play and, accordingly, we came nowhere David
I like playing dotty old serial killer ladies Val

Marilyn never did another play with us. We got the impression that her husband regarded all actors as a bunch of queers and he didn't want her hanging around with us!