Florence Nightingale by John Bowen 9th-11th February 2006
Drama. The story of Florence Nightingale’s life is told in the form of a rehearsal of a play to be performed at a later time. It passes from her youth, though the famous, but brief, period of the Lady With the Lamp, and her many activities afterwards until, at the close of her long life, she is presented-barely aware of it-with the Order of Merit.
Cast
Stage Manager: John Baskerville
The Director: Phillip Bell
A.S.M: Fiona-Rose Prosser
Florence Nightingale: Samantha Powell
W.E.N.: Vince Cook
Fanny: Jean Williams
Parthe: Rachael Barnes
Marianne: Sarah-Jane Anderson
Elizabeth Herbert: Edith Pratt
Lord Palmerston: Douglas Harding
Sidney Herbert: David Smith
Mrs Gaskell: Sonia Weston
Trott: Cliff Francis
Rev’d Mother: Val Cook
Wreford: Albert Clack
Orderly: John Moules
Crew
Director: Pat Baskerville
Stage Management: Tracy Rudeforth, John Baskerville, Helen Faulkner
Prompt: Joyce Elson
Set Design: John Baskerville
Lighting: Robert Evans
Sound: Ben Green
Properties: Margaret Bachini
Costumes: Andrea Butler
Programme: Nicole Ashbrook
Set Builders: John Elson, Robert Evans, Malcolm Boston, Michael Inskeep, Colin Bladon, John Baskerville, Neil Roskilly, Tracy Rudeforth, Lindsay Rudeforth, Stefan Rudeforth
Front of House: Jeremy Evans and The Players