6 June - 6 July 1996

HINDLE WAKES

by Stanley Houghton

Mrs Hawthorn BRIDGET TURNER

Mr Hawthorn COLIN PROCKTER
Fanny Hawthorn SOPHIE STANTON
Mrs Jeffcote SUE JOHNSTON
Mr Jeffcote EWAN HOOPER
Ada SARAH KIRKMAN
Alan Jeffcote NICHOLAS GLEAVES
Sir Timothy Farrar BRIAN RAWLINSON
Beatrice Farrar TRILBY JAMES

Director HELENA KAUT-HOWSON
Designer LEZ BROTHERSTON
Lighting VINCE HERBERT
Sound STEVE BROWN
Dialect Coach JULIA WILSON DICKSON

'Don't let its age put you off. Hindle Wakes...is wonderful, vintage comedy...The result is deep, rib-aching laughter from an appreciative audience...The direction by experienced Polish-born Helena Kaut-Howson is inspired...'
Valentine Arnold Stockport Times

'The audience revelled in the play and even cheered...the result is one of the funniest productions I've seen in a long time...Designer Lez Brotherston's set is magnificent...'
Doreen Crowther Bolton Evening News

'...at the centre of the play (Ewan) Hooper is excellent...'
Jeremy Kingston The Times

On 15 June 1996, an IRA bomb exploded in Manchester, damaging the Royal Exchange Theatre. The production of Hindle Wakes was forced to close with only limited performances given at BBC North.