Steel Magnolias
Written by Robert Harding
Directed by Margaret Penny
1 – 6 June 1992
Hilarious and touching, this play for six women is set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana. Through four scenes spanning three years the staff and customers engage in small-town gossip but we see a deep strength and purposefulness emerge when Shelby – a diabetic – dies following a kidney transplant operation.
Cast
Truvy – Marilyn Macdonald
Annelle – Polly Owen
Clairee – Jean Franks
Shelby – Michelle Pearl
M’lynn – Marion Ellis
Ouiser – Audrey Christianson
Crew
Stage Managers – Len Huntley, Bill Brookes
Assistant Stage Manager – Daisy May Mulcahy
Set Design – Len Huntley
Set Construction – “The Round Up Boys”
Properties – Margaret and Alex Baird, Pauline Ellard
Lighting – C. D’Oyly-Watkins
Sound – Jon Gritton
Costumes – Marjorie Sawyer, Carole Bramall and the Cast