7 April - 7 May 1994

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW

by Joe Orton

Dr Prentice DAVID HOROVITCH
Geraldine Barclay KATE WINSLET
Mrs Prentice DEBORAH NORTON
Nicholas Beckett NEIL STUKE
Dr Rance TREVOR BAXTER
Sergeant Match BILLY HARTMAN

Director ROBER T DELAMERE
Designer ASHLEY MARTIN-DAVIS
Sound ROBERT TICE
Lighting MICK HUGHES

'...guest director Robert Delamere has succeeded in making the brilliant cruelty of Orton's wit shine anew...The ingredients are pure Whitehall farce, but few, before or since, have served them up as tartly, as darkly, or with quite the same ingenious degree of literary elan as Orton. Great fun.'
Jim Burke City Life

'If we needed a convincing reminder of his (Orton's) genius, the Royal Exchange has given us one with this spirited revival of his anarchic late sixties black farce...a promising comic debut from young director Robert Delamere...hats off to an able and well-matched cast...The climax and the striking final tableau were clever coups de theatre - and I fancy the spirit of Orton was probably lurking voyeuristically somewhere in the stalls...'
David Harrison Manchester Evening News