(Honorary Patron: Dame Vanessa Redgrave)
(Honorary Patron: Dame Vanessa Redgrave)
21st to 24th May 2025
Performances at 7.30pm
The Director is Heather Legat |
The Musical Director is Diana Vivian |
The Cast:
| Gilbert Chilvers |  |
Tony Carpenter |
| Joyce Chilvers |  |
Susie Gow |
| Mother Dear |  |
Jennifer Charters |
| Dr James Swaby |  |
Richard White |
| Francis Lockwood |  |
Ellis Nicholls |
| Henry Allardyce |  |
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| Inspector Wormold |  |
Richard Ashton |
| Mr Nuttall |  |
David Gow |
| Mrs Lester (top line) |
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Clemency Bray |
| Mrs Roach (bottom line) |
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Kate Buxton |
| Mrs Turnbull (middle line) |
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Caroline Thompson |
| Mrs Tillbrook |  |
Laura Musco |
| Mrs Allardyce |  |
Melanie Tyrrell |
| Mrs Swaby | |
Stephanie Wilson |
| Also appearing |  |
Rachel Perkins |
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Diana Lovelock | |
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Ingrid Collins | |
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Debra Allen | |
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Brezetta Thonger | |
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Ruth Wilbraham | |
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Based on the HANDMADE film 'A PRIVATE FUNCTION'
and the original story by Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray
Adapted from the Screenplay by ALAN BENNETT
Originally produced in London by CAMERON MACKINTOSH
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International
All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.mtishows.co.uk
Synopsis
An utterly British musical, full of eccentric characters, such as the strange odd couple, Gilbert – an evangelistic chiropodist, and Joyce – a nobody determined to be somebody; Inspector Wormold - an obsessive destroyer of illegal meat; Mother Dear - 'She's seventy four and ravenous'; along with a weird assortment of bullies, spivs and snobs and of course, our star, Betty the pig.
Betty Blue Eyes is set in 1947. Belts are being tightened, and government is telling the country there'll be fair shares for all if they survive Austerity Britain. Meanwhile, local officials feather their own nests by taking more than their fair share.
Having won the war, Britain seems to be losing the peace: the country is staggering under rationing, unemployment, and the coldest winter for decades.
The only bright spark on the horizon is the impending Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
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