Separate Tables
Written by Terence Rattigan
Directed by Marion Ellis
14 – 19 November 1983
These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England’s south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who helps repair their broken lives. In Table Number Seven, a ‘self-made’ army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.
Cast
Table No.1
Mabel – Edna Rand
Lady Matheson – Joyce Austin
Mrs Railton-Bell – Patricia Summers
Miss Meacham – Brenda Winn
Doreen – Lyn Howe
Mr Fowler – Graeme Horner
Anne Shankland – Janice Wood
Miss Cooper – Eileen Hullett
John Malcolm – Roger Butler
Charles Stratton – Alan James
Jean Tanner – Janet Pearce
Table No.2
Jean Stratton – Janet Pearce
Charles Stratton – Alan James
Major Pollock – Roger Butler
Mr Fowler – Graeme Horner
Miss Cooper – Eileen Hullett
Mrs Railton-Bell – Patricia Summers
Sybil Railton-Bell – Janice Wood
Lady Matheson – Joyce Austin
Miss Meacham – Brenda Winn
Mabel – Edna Rand
Doreen – Lyn Howe
Crew
Set Design and Stage Management – Bill Brookes, Len Huntley
Set built by – Bill, Len, Gary, Lisa
Assistant Stage Manager – Claire Kingshott
Properties – Pamela Horner, Trevor Coleman
Lighting – Dennis Kingshot
Sound – Brian Richards