It Runs In The Family

by

Ray Cooney

Directed by: Tom Thistleton

16,18-23 Apr 2005

It's three days before Christmas. In the Doctor's Common Room of St Andrew's Hospital in London, David Mortimore is composing the speech he will give to a distinguished gathering of neurologists, a speech which may well make or break his career. All he needs is a little peace and quiet to finish it...

Unfortunately for our hero peace and quiet is in very short supply. A nurse with whom he had an affair years ago turns up to confront him with the fact that he is the father of her son, who is now eighteen.

Not only that, but the said son is now downstairs in the hospital and is desperate to meet the Dad he has never seen.

How on earth can Mortimore keep this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, and still deliver his speech?

Dr David Mortimore	John Still
Dr Mike Connolly	Ryan Ellershaw
Rosemary	Pam Roberts
Dr Hubert Bonney	Charlie Cook
Matron	Barbara Ritchie
Sir Willoughby Drake	Peter de la Wych
Jane Tate	Carmel Bird
Sister	Rhiannon Lewis
Leslie	Nathaniel Hall
Police Sergeant	Paul Lewis
Bill	Fred Yeomans
Mother	Doris Cocking

Stage Manager	Emma Cartledge
Wardrobe	Joan Heineckey
Properties	Valerie Swithenbank Liz Cook Clair Lewis
Continuity	Margaret Williams
Lighting	Cyril Hines
Sound	Val Donlan
Set Design	Cyril Hines
Set Construction	Cyril Hines Doreen and Roger Brday Val Donlan Derek Frith Victor Stansfield Trevor Tyler Roland and Gillian Matthews
Scenic Artist	Shirley Murray
Production Asistant	Dodie Jones
Programme Cover	Derek Frith