Anonymous Players

 

 

 

 

Production Details

256th Production - A Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore

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Presented at Lowther Pavilion - 13 to 16 February 2013.

Directed by Jeff Redfern.

 

 

 

 

It is 1961, the middle of the Cold War, a time of unease and suspicion. An ordinary family in an ordinary London suburb find themselves becoming g friends with the convivial Canadian couple opposite.

However, the pleasant lives of Bob, Barbara and Julie Jackson, Whitemore’s fictional family, are disrupted by the arrival of a stranger claiming to be from MI5 and their home becomes a surveillance post. The objects of the surveillance are Helen and Peter Kroger, their friends whose movements cannot always be accounted for. Layers of treachery and deception unfold and it becomes difficult to be sure who is betraying whom at any one time as real life takes over from fiction. Peter and Helen Kroger were convicted of spying for the Russians and convicted to 20 years’ imprisonment. It could be argued that the problems of the Jackson family continue for much longer.
 

 

 

 

 

  Cast

 

Barbara Jackson

Kirsten Burnett

 

Bob Jackson

Stewart Yeadon

 

Julie Jackson

Ariane Hazeldine

 

Helen Kroger

Bernadette Scully

 

Peter Kroger

Tim Cave

 

Mr Stewart

David Parry

 

Thelma

Louise Davies

 

Sally

Nichola Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Stage Crew

 

Stage Manager

Chris Jones

 

Sound

Michael Ward

 

Set Construction

Michael Ward and team

 

Properties

Camilla Woolner and Sarah Hiles

 

Set Construction

Lytham Amateur Operatic Society