Journey's End | Toad of Toad Hall | The Royal Imp of Fame | The Marvellous History of St Bernard |
By R C Sherriff
Presented by St Augustine's Grammar School, Upper Sixth Year 1975
Stanhope | commander of an infantry company | Mark Greenall |
Osborne | officers of the company | Christopher Start |
Trotter | Michael Cooke | |
Hibbert | John Gill | |
Raleigh | Christopher Jones | |
The Colonel | Con Gregg | |
Mason | the officers' cook | Alan Johnstone |
Sergeant Major | Andrew Stavordale | |
Hardy | an officer of another regiment | John Cameron |
Broughton | Stephen O Donnell | |
A young German soldier | Gerard Battle |
Directed by: | Richard Scrowston |
Designed by: | Allen Addis |
Lighting/Sound: | Peter Fay Damian Kenny |
Box Office Manager: | Harry Rigby |
Make-up: | Christine Dawson Christine Wood |
Production Manager: | John Cameron |
Stage Manager and Properties: | Andrew Stavordale |
Today, we find ourselves unable to appreciate the tremendous enthusiasm that gripped all the European peoples in 1914 at the outbreak of the war. Young men with dreams of glory flocked in their thousands to take up arms against the enemy, spurred on by the leaders of their nation and encouraged by their wives, friends and families. But, by Christmas 1914, all the dreams of a quick and easy victory were shattered. A line of trenches stretched from Switzerland to the English Channel.. This was the Western Front, graveyard of over half a million British soldiers by the end of the war in November 1918. For the men in the front line, mud, rats, cold weather and deprivation were a part of everyday life: gone was the glory and the honour of battle - in its place was hardship and constant fear of death.
"Journey's End" was written ten years after the war and seeks to recall something of the horror of life in the Front Line. It is set in 1918 just before the final German offensive and takes place in a dug-out.
Our production has eleven characters. Stanhope, the young Captain, who resorts to whisky in order to cope with pressures of a long spell of duty at the front. Osborne, a schoolmaster, is an older, avuncular character, who spreads a calming influence. The obese Trotter and the frightened Hibbert appear at first to be stereotypes but reveal unexpected qualities. Raleigh is a newcomer, straight from Stanhope's public school full of enthusiasm for his hero and for the war. The Colonel is an unemotional, awkward man trying to do his distasteful job. Hardy is the jovial Captain whom Stanhope relieves, while Mason, the cook, punctuates the action with his wry remarks. The cast also includes an immensely dependable Sergeant-Major, and two young privates, one from each side, representative of the bemused millions caught up in the larger conflict which this play attempts to mirror. (Christopher Start)
(Play from "The Wind in the Willows by
Kenneth Grahame. Music by H. Fraser-Simpson)
in Assembly Hall
on 19th, 21th
and 22nd May, 1971
Dramatis Personae
Marigold | Paul Norbury |
Nurse | John Davis |
Mole | Andrew Wills |
Rat | Christopher Start |
Badger | Stephen Donnelly |
Toad | John Whatnall |
lst Fieldmouse | Peter Booth or Peter Baker |
2nd Fieldmouse | Ian Stevenson |
"Alfred" | Andrew Monoghan and Gerard Allen |
Barge Horse | Gerard Allen and Andrew Monoghan |
Judge | Andrew Matthews |
Turkey | Ian Laybourn |
Duck | Andrew Stavordale |
Squirrels | Laurence Whitworth Laurence Wilmot John McNabb Mark Dean |
Rabbits | Michael Cooke Paul Grainger Mark Brennan Paul Bridge Timothy Smith |
Chief Weasel | Anthony Mack |
Chief Stoat | John Cameron |
Chief Ferret | John Pritchard |
Usher | Kevin Corcoran |
Policeman | Andrew Sasiadek |
Phoebe | Paul Thompson |
Jailer | Fergal Farrell |
Aunt | John Brennan |
Mama Rabbit | Andrew Carroll |
Harold | Joseph Griffin |
Lucy | Duncan Ward |
Fox | Michael Davis |
Bargewoman | Henry Dillon |
"The Brave-one" | Laurence Tottle |
Ferrets | Alan Rogers David Morgan Mark Flanagan Gerard Bowers Stephen Lowe Sean Freeman Paul Carney |
Weasels | Martin Bartlett Peter Cawley Ian Lyons Paul Warmsley Christopher Gleeson Dominic Berry |
Stoats | James
Hamilton John Joseph Cahill Michael Carroll Peter Fay Stephen Ball Carl Brennan |
Field Mice | Peter Bibby |
Stage Management: Peter
Coppock & Alan Ascroft
Lighting: Andrew Hartnett & Vincent Tetlow
Props:Philip Smith
Prompt:Joseph Hennessey
Set Designed by Mr R A Addis
Built by: Mr D F Astin and Jeremy Constant
Musical Director: Mr E T Morris
The Play directed by Mr. Chris Glynn and Mr. M. A. Allen
From Eddie Tickle & Chris Blaydon:
Hal (Henry V): | Mike Hovington - he is in the photo to left of King Henry IV. |
Henry IV | Nigel Tweedie |
Hotspur | Chris Blaydon |
Kate, Hotspur's Wife | Chris Start |
Walter Blunt | Dennis Murphy |
Douglas | George Noworyta |
Pistol: | Tony Greenwood (which I remember most because of his favourite line - "Pistol's cock is up!") |
Peto: | Eddie Tickle. |
Mistress Quickly: | John Cameron |
Chris Glynn
and Richard Scrowston produced the play from parts of
Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V and Henry VI centred
around Falstaff the 'Imp of Fame'.
It would be
nice to build a full cast list.
By Henry Gheon
Director: Christopher Glynn
14 - 17 March 1970
Who remembers this one?
Cast included
John Cameron, Peter Fay, Andrew Matthews as servants of the House of Mentheon
Trevor Baglin, Joe Domican, George Hawthornthwaite, Roman Pronyszyn as servants of the House of Miolan
Maybe we had more to say later in life!
Festival of Lessons and Carols for Christmas (1968)
AN EVENING OF MUSIC (26th April, 1973)
AN EVENING OF MUSIC (6th April 1976)