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Fools Rush In

A Comedy by Kenneth Horne

Produced by Annette Tyler

Cast
Millicent (Bridesmaid) Jane Ratcliffe
Mrs. Coot (Daily Woman) Pat Wynn
Mrs. Mandrake (Housekeeper) Joan French
Angela (Pam's Mother) Audrey Rayner
Pam (Bride) Lynda Leigh

Charles (Angela's Fiance)

Bert Moore

Paul (Univited Guest)

Percy Hodgson
Joe (Bridegroom) Raymond Goree
The scene is the lounge-hall of Angela Dickson's house at Ilcombe in Kent. The action covers a period of one week in the summer.

First performed at the Fortune Theatre, London in 1946 with Glynis Johns as the bride, that role was filled by Dee Beeching when the Players first staged this play in 1959 . This time around, Lynda Leigh is the bride with apparently cold feet.

Only one new face on stage this time - Jane Ratcliffe as the Bridesmaid - but three more behind the scenes. Joyce Mitchell and Janice Wright helped out with props and decor (could it be one of these who managed to persuade Willards the Bakers to supply a wedding cake?), while John Aitchison was responsible for recording. The programme doesn't say what was being recorded, or whether it was legal ... so perhaps best not to go into that.