73rd Production
Pools Paradise
By Philip King
19th - 23rd May 1970
We confess! ‘Pools Paradise’ is an end-of-season romp, and we are enjoying it as much as we hope you will.
Following the whimsical, melancholic humour of Anouilh’s ‘Waltz of the Toreadors,’ ‘Pools Paradise’ brings us back to earth with a bump.
Laughter invades the sleepy parish of Merton-cum-Middlewick as the plot races on from one awkward situation to the next.
The Rev. Lionel Toop’s indignation of finding his wife (albeit unwittingly) involved in gambling is equalled only by his embarrassment as he attempts to hide from the pressing attentions of the predatory Miss Skillon.
The combined efforts of his clerical colleagues, and of the maid and her intended, are only just enough to bring the play to its inevitably happy, if unlikely, conclusion.
Cast
Penelope Toop
Ida, the Maid
The Rev. Lionel Toop
Miss Skillon
Willie Briggs
The Rev. Arthur Humphrey
The Bishop of Lax
Choristers
Joan Brown
Susan Hunt
Michael Bradley
Phyllis Dadd
David Wilson
Brian Lewis
Hedley Brown
Nicholas Goodison
John Turner
Mark Turner
Production Team
Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Managers
Sound Operator
Lighting
Costumes
Properties
Set Designed and Painted by
House Manager
Theatre Manager
Assistant Theatre Manager
David Elford
David Brown
Evelyn Raby
Carol Peasgood
David Roberts
Tony Chatterton
John Harrop
Phyllis Dadd
Sylvia Chatterton
Christine Spindley
Marilynne Harrison
Glyn Roberts
Mavis Ellin
