Separate Tables

by sally on Sunday, July 25, 2010
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written by Terence Rattigan

directed by Chris Barltrop and Tim Crow

Date: Tuesday 28th September – Saturday 2nd October 2010 at 7:30 pm
Swan Theatre
Box office: 01905 611427

The play
Rattigan, one of the leading dramatists of the 20th-century, explores fallibility and deception with passion and balance. In a Bournemouth Hotel, as the guests gather for dinner, the trio of permanent boarders act out their petty table routines and rituals. Here new arrivals are viewed with suspicion or open curiosity. Beneath this veneer of respectability is a group of lonely people with secrets, who plot and manoeuvre to retain their fragile positions. Yet when faced with inevitable exposure, it takes the mediation and tact of the manageress, Miss Cooper, to rescue the situation at her personal cost. Of course, there are as always, great lines for actors to relish and audiences to enjoy.

Cast
Mabel – Julie Nunn
Doreen – Abi Lister
Mrs Railton-Bell – Gabrielle Bullock
Miss Meacham – Audrey Holt
Mr Fowler – Chris Barltrop
Mrs Anne Shankland – Amber Bluck
Miss Sybil Railton-Bell – Liz Burden
Miss Pat Cooper – Gill Charles
Mr Charles Stratton – Chris Broadfield
Miss Jean Tanner – Katherine Jones
John Malcome – Chris Issac
Major Pollock – Ian Mason
Lady Gladys Matheson – Daphne Knight

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