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May Production 1990 - "Queer Street" by John Donald Kelly and "Departure" by Stephen Smith
Departure by Stephen Smith
Cast Rosemary Gibbs - Sonia Dell Mandy Gibbs - Helen Baldomero Sheila Tippitt - Caroline
Weisskopf Dennis Tippitt - Kevin Hill
Director: Muriel Taylor Stranded during the inevitable delay of a holiday flight to Spain, Rosemary - "I'm a one-parent family, you see" - and her not-very-bright daughter, Mandy, draw the reluctant Dennis and Sheila Tippitt into conversation. Sheila has suggested a holiday to try to right her ailing marriage. Rosemary is looking for a husband for Mandy. The comic tone of the play shifts continually between Rosemary's malapropisms and Dennis' grimly humorous bigotry. Queer Street by John Kelly
Cast Mrs Hart - Sue Stafford Mr Hart - Ted Ford Tania Guenther - Edith, their daughter Albert Smith - Allan Saunders Joe Smart - Andrew Steel A Detective - Bryan Taylor
Directors: Joy Scherer and Oscar Baldomero Somewere in a sittingroom in London, Bill Hart earns a comfortable, if somewhat perilous living as a burglar, but his equilibrium is shockingly upset when his daughter Edith becomes engaged to one Albert Smith - a policeman. That night when Albert calls, Bill pretends to be a plumber.
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