1982

April

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The Happiest Days Of Your Life

A Farce by John Dighton

Produced by Annette Tyler

	Cast
	Dick Tassell (Assistant Master at Hilary Hall)	Ray Goree
	Rainbow (School Porter & Groundsman)	Colin Dengate
	Rupert Billings (Senior Assistant Master at Hilary Hall)	Cliff Mewett
	Godfrey Pond (Headmaster of Hilary Hall)	Bert Moore
	Miss Evelyn Whitchurch (Principal of St. Swithun's School for Girls)	Joy Wren
	Miss Gossage (Senior Asistant Mistress at St. Swithun's)	Joanj Bradford
	Hopcroft Mi (Pupil at Hilary Hall)	James Raynor
	Barbara Cahoun (Pupil at St. Swithun's)	Julia Slack
	Joyce Harper (Assistant Mistress at St. Swithun's)	Julie Dengate
	Rev Edward Peck	Bert Freeman
	Mrs. Peck (his wife)	Hilda Moore
	Edgar Sowter	Roy Lewis
	Mrs. Sowter (his wife)	Joan French
	The action passes in the Masters' Common Room at Hilary Hall School for Boys, in Hampshire. It is the first day of the Summer Term in 1946.

This is one of very few plays deemed worthy of a second run, just ten years after it was first performed by the Players in 1972. I note that Bert Moore and Joan French appeared in both productions, albeit playing different roles. The programme shows that Pearl Coussens and Margaret Charrot, both of whom appeared for the first time just the previous year helping behind the scenes, have well and truly thrown themselves into the life of the Players, having taken over the roles of Secretary and Treasurer respectively.