1989

April

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Wedding of the Year

by Norman Robbins

Directed by Sue Trueman

	Cast
	Ethel Murchinson	Lynda Leigh
	Peggy Ramskill	Esther De Vries
	Walter Thornton	Roy Pugsley
	Frank Edwards	Roland "Garrett"
	Alison Murchinson	Heather Agar
	Honoria Murchinson	Joy Wren
	Matilda Murchinson	June Dyer
	Melvyn Thornton	Dick Kempson
	Harry Elphinston	Richard Herrington
	Priscilla Murchinson	Anne Edwards



	The action of the play takes place in the living-room of the Murchinson home, and spans a period of six weeks.

A whole bunch of people make a first appearance in this play, and several of them are still active members today. Roland Garrad suffered the indignity of having his name mis-spelt in the programme, but there was no such difficulty with Esther De Vries, Roy Pugsley, Anne Edwards or Dick Kempson.

By the same author as A Tomb With A View (April 1988), this is a very different play. Alison Murchinson, described in the script as fat, straight-haired and bespectacled, (I think a modicum of flexibility was demonstrated in casting Heather Agar for the part) is the last sort of girl one would visualize as a heroine, but Uncle Frank decides to make her one by entering her as a prospective candidate for a Wedding of the Year competition - selecting a designer to create her wedding dress even before he has found her a suitable husband. His eye falls on Walter Thornton's son, Melvyn, a frustrated inventor and an appallingly clumsy young man. However, the best laid plans ... Alison ends up a prospective bride, but not for Melvyn. Harry, the dress designer, carries her off - and Walter Thornton carries off her mother.