John Drinkwater

'The Storm'

A Poetic Play

(John Drinkwater)

Wednesday 11 January 1928 Daventry 5GB 9.30-10

From Birmingham

Alice - Gladys Ward
Joan (her younger sister) - Grace Walton
Sarah - Gladys Joiner
An Old Man - Wortley Allen
A Young Stranger - Stuart Vinden

A mountain cottage on a midwinter night. Outside a snowstorm rages. Alice is looking through the window, while Joan, her younger sister, and Sarah, an old neighbour woman, are sitting over the fire. Alice's husband has failed to return home at his usual hour, and owing to the croakings of old Sarah, the foreboding of some terrible happening is fretting the younger woman. The story gives her hopes and fears.

'The Mayor of Casterbridge'

From the novel by Thomas Hardy

(John Drinkwater)

Friday 17 August 1928 London and Daventry 7.30-9

Henchard - Henry Oscar
Susan - Christine Silver
Elizabeth Jane - Moyna MacGill
Newson - Douglas Burbridge
Donald Farfrae - Arthur Clay
Lucetta - Loti Ford
Christopher Coney - Basil Dyne
Nance Mockridge - Monica Stracey
Mrs. Stannidge - Florence Wood
Mrs. Cuxson - Margaret Watson
A boy - Lewis Shaw
Village Worthies, Rustics, Carters, Village Women, etc.

Scene I - A Tent on the Fairground
Scene II - The Street outside 'The King's Arms'
Scene III - 'The Three Mariners', Casterbridge
Scene IV - The same. The next morning.
Scene V - The same. December 1843
Scene VI - The yard of Henchard's business
Scene VII - The same
Scene VIII - The parlour of Henchard's
Scene IX - The Churchyard
Scene X - High Place Hall
Scene XI - The loft in Farfrae's year
Scene XII - Abel Whittle's Cottage
Scene XIII - The same