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The Admirable Crichton
by J M Barrie
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The mildest of social satires, The Admirable Crichton is a comedy based on the plight of a very stuffy English Earl's family being cast adrift on an island for two years.
The Earl himself has unpopular egalitarian ideas before the shipwreck, and this fantasy shows how his they actually pan out, and what happiness when they are finally rescued and brought back to Belgravia.
Director Tony Newton has now cast all the main parts with a great line-up: Crichton will be played by Andrew Craze, Lord Loam by Rusty Ashman; his daughters by Kate Oates, Vanessa Williams and Emily Carlton. Lord Brocklehurst will be played by Mick Orme, Dowager Lady Brocklehurst by Pam Walker and the juvenile lead by Geoff Prutton, currently still rehearsing Time of My Life.
Jon Glatter, Lynda Gordon, Omer Warman, Jessica Carlton, Hannah Arnaud and Lydia Tutton are also in the cast and new recruit Georgia Lockwood will play the wonderful role of The Tweeny ("the Diane Cilento role" as someone we know keeps calling it!)
Anyone can still join the show in non speaking and stage hand roles. we are looking for a camp chef, a sniffy valet, the housekeeper, another maid, and a couple of boys. Tony has said to the cast: "Under no circumstances, watch the film starring Kenneth Moore and Sally-Anne Howes!!!!!!!" which he thinks did no credit to the play, but it seems likely that many will, it keeps popping up on daytime or early morning TV.