The Farmer’s Wife by Eden Phillpotts
11th-14th April 1934 at the Repertory Theatre Letchworth
Romantic comedy. After his wife dies, a farmer goes through an elaborate attempt to persuade one of his various female neighbours to marry him without realising that the ideal woman is already working as his housekeeper.
Churdles Ash : Ken Spinks
Araminta Dench : Gwen Spinks
Thirza Tapper : Dorothie Brotchie
Samuel Sweetland : David Thomas
Sibley Sweetland : Diana Robinson
George Smerdon : Derek Booth
Petronell Sweetland : Nora Spinks
Richard Coaker : Harry Doherty
Louisa Windeatt : Mollie Watson
Susan Maine : Marjorie Pye
Sarah Smerdon : Christobel Thompson
Sophie Smerdon : Cicely Webb
Teddie Smerdon : David MacMichael
Valiant Dunnybrig : Charles Bygrave
Mrs Rundle : Frances Gregory
Dr Rundle : Leslie Tanner
Henry Coaker : Colin Kirby
Mr Gregson : Frederick Dainton
Mary Hearn : Margaret Mackintosh
Rev Septimus Tudor : H John Marden
Hon Mrs Tudor : Joan Gambrill
Nurse : Kathleen Rackham
Glee Singers : Frederick Dainton, Jack Hannah, Les Spinks, A N Other
Crew
Producer : Ken Spinks
Stage Manager : Oswald Hefferon
Lighting : Robert Footman
Mistress of the Robes : Miss Dewe
Box Office : Robert Parker
Programme of Music Arranged by : Edwin Swannell
Secretary : Mrs L Spinks