Separate Tables
Written by Terence Rattigan
Directed by Marion Ellis
13 – 16 October 1965
These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England’s south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who helps repair their broken lives. In Table Number Seven, a ‘self-made’ army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.
Cast
Table By The Window
Mabel – Joan Luke
Lady Matheson – Joan March
Mrs Railton-Bell – Betty Cottee
Miss Meacham – Effie Caselton
Doreen – Kathleen Lunnon
Mr Fowler – Tony Stebbing
Anne Shankland – Edna Chance
Miss Cooper – Betty Willard
John Malcolm – T.H Prestage
Charles Stratton – Ted Brooks
Jean Tanner – Doreen Sackman
Table Number Seven
Jean Stratton – Doreen Sackman
Charles Stratton – Ted Brooks
Major Pollock – T.H. Prestage
Mr Fowler – Tony Stebbing
Miss Cooper – Betty Willard
Mrs Railton-Bell – Betty Cottee
Sybil Railton-Bell – Edna Chance
Lady Matheson – Joan March
Miss Meacham – Effie Caselton
Mabel – Joan Luke
Doreen – Kathleen Lunn
Casual Guests – June Janes, David Dewsall
Crew
Stage Manager – Bill Brookes
Assistant Stage Manager – Barbara Brookes
Properties – Jennifer Fryatt, Sylvia Foster, Janet Howe
Lighting – Chris Crooks
Wigs – Nathanwigs
Costumes – Sally Spruce
Set Design – Denis Osborne and Bill Brookes
Decor – Fred