Anonymous Players

 

 

 

 

Production Details

208th Production - Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton

Presented at Lowther Pavilion - 28 April to 1 May 1999.

Directed by Di Prutton.
 

 

 

 

 


Outline of Play

This is a Lancashire play set in the Mill Town of Hindle and written largely in Lancashire dialect. A Wakes Weekend means time spent in Blackpool or, in the case of Fanny Hawthorn, Llandudno, with the mill owner's son.

The characters' various reactions to this, and their final decision, make up a drama which caused great furore when it was first produced in 1912.

 

 

 

 

 

  Synopsis of Scenes

 


The play is set in Hindle in 1912.
 

 

 

 

Act I

 

Bank Holiday Monday, August 6th

 

 

Scene 1

Kitchen of Hawthorns' house, 137 Burnley Road - 9.00 pm

 

 

Scene 2

Breakfast Room of Jeffcotts' house, Bank Top - 10.30 pm

 

 

Scene 3

Breakfast Room of Jeffcotts' house - 01.00 am

 

Act II

 

Tuesday, August 7th - 8.00 pm.  Breakfast room of Jeffcotts' house.

 

Act III

 

Tuesday, August 7th - 9.00 pm.  Breakfast room of Jeffcotts' house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Cast

 

Mrs Hawthorn

Maureen Tyler

 

Christopher Hawthorn

Roger Prutton

 

Fanny Hawthorn

Lisa Ellis

 

Mrs Jeffcote

Lesley Jarvis

 

Nathaniel Jeffcote

David Lee

 

Alan Jeffcote

Sam Wilcher

 

Sir Timothy Farrar

Alan Gelndinning

 

Beatrice Farrar

Katie Rushton

 

Ada

Katie Leahy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Stage Crew

 

Stage Manager

Chris Jones

 

Costumes

Heather Town

 

Set Design and Construction

Michael Ward, Don Killip and Ray Butterfield

 

Sound

Michael Ward

 

Properties

Pat Womersley and Shirley Croasdale

 

Prompt

Carol White

 

Lighting

Tim Edwards