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Mystery At Greenfingers
A Comedy of Detection by J.B.
Priestley
Produced by Dorothy Snowball |
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Cast |
| Arnold Jordan |
Nicky Bouras |
| Edna Sandars |
Marjorie Browne |
| Keith Henley |
Aubrey Sinden |
| Helen Tennant |
Annette Tyler |
| Sally Philips |
Joan French |
| Clara Packer |
Anne Graham |
| Rose Heaton |
Marjorie Vandervord |
| Fred Poole |
Del Smith |
| Robert Crowther |
Donald Hume |
| Miss Tracey |
Lilian Webb |
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| The action of the play takes
place in the Staff Room of the Greenfingers Palace Hotel in the Peak
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This play was carefully devised and specially
written as a test piece for amateur dramatic societies competing in
the "News Chronicle" Drama Contest, 1937-38. Its single set,
properties. costumes, are the simplest possible. It requires no
elaborate effects. All it demands are sensible lively production and
good acting. The author has put it into the form of a detective play
- though it contains no murders and no police - for two reasons:
firstly, because the general public likes this type of play;
secondly because it is easier to produce and act a play with a
certain obvious plot structure than it is to do a play of pure
character. Nevertheless, this is really a comedy of character,
masquerading as - and to some extent burlesquing - a mystery play.
The producer should remember this, and should make his characters
more authentic than the plot. (Notes from
script)
The winners of the Contest, in
January 1938, were the Bournemouth Little Theatre
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Twenty-five years ago, almost to the day, at a meeting in the
Village Hall, there was inaugurated the Fairlight Drama Group, with
the principal object of producing plays. About two years later the
name of the Group was changed to the Fairlight Players. Two full
scale productions have been mounted in almost every year since that
modest but enthusiastic beginning and, in addition, a number of
shorter performances have been given by invitation or for members
only.
(From the notes on the rear of the programme) |
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This play marks a change in strategy as the Players abandoned the
matinee performance on Saturday in favour of an additional evening
performance on Thursday. This would become the regular pattern for a
number of years.
At this stage, we have not
identified any pictures from this production, although some may
exist in our collection of mystery
pictures. If you can
help, please feel free to contact us. |
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