Habeas Corpus
by
Alan Bennett
15th, 18th -22nd Jan 2000
Director: Jean Cox
In this satirical merry-go-round we meet the Wicksteed family and its friends
and acquaintances, for whom the determination to put sex and the satisfactions
of the body (or corpus) before everything else is the ruling passion of
their lives. The permissive society is taken to task in a farcical comedy
in which the characters, sterotypes as their names suggest, move - and
indeed dance - in and out through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual
encounters. As Wicksteed says, at the close, "he whose lust lasts, lasts
longest."
| Dr. Arthur Wicksteed |
John Still |
| Muriel Wicksteed |
Barbara Ritchie |
| Mrs. Swab |
Sue Mooney |
| Constance Wicksteed |
Chris Hall |
| Felicity Rumpers |
Rhiannon Lewis |
| Lady Rumpers |
Margaret Williams |
| Mr. Purdue |
Ian Tyler |
| Canon Throbbing |
Duncan Walker |
| Mr. Shanks |
Chris Jorgensson |
| Dennis Wicksteed |
Chris Schilling |
| Sir Percy Shorter |
Adam Hare |
| Stage Manager |
Doreen Brady |
| Wardrobe |
Jayne Taylor
Joan Heinekey
Edwige Marsland |
| Properties |
Joyce Sykes
Hilda Knight
|
| Continuity |
Ruth Taylor |
| Lighting |
Roger Brady |
| Sound |
Val Donlan |
| Staging |
Norman Whitelam
and the workshop team |
| Scenic Artist |
Shirley Murray |
| Programme Cover |
Derek Frith |
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