poster design by Gill Taylor
CAST
Hardcastle - William Barklam
Mrs Hardcastle - Elizabeth Braithwaite
Tony Lumpkin - Ed Beesley
Kate Hardcastle - Polly Cohen
Constance Neville- Bylli Gomez
Charles Marlow- Josh Bosman
George Hastings - Iain Prest
Old Sir Charles Marlow - Mike Shallcross
Diggory - Anthony Smith
Maid - Jackie Withnall
Landlady - Vanessa Cutts
Ensemble
Florence Curran, Oliver Judge, Jenny Moorby, Vaughan Thomas
Musicians
Peter Sellars
Jan Lawrence & Neil Rogers (Bruins Ruin)
Production Team
Director - Gill Taylor
Producers - Jackie Withnall & Oliver Judge
Sound Design - Stephen Wess
Sound Operation - Stephen Wess, Julie Rickwood
& Richard Penney
Lighting Design & Operation - Kimber Wright
& Stephen Wess
Stage Manager - Phil Braithwaite
Assistant Stage Manager - Michelle Harris
& John Saunders
Set Construction - Steve Cahill-Hayes
Costumes- Vicky Harris
Front of House Managers - Ian Powell, Amy Wilson
& Julie Rickwood
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
by OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Oliver Goldsmith’s much-loved 18th
century comic masterpiece.
Old-fashioned country Squire Hardcastle has a foolish fashionable wife, an oafish step-son, and beautiful and witty daughter. He hopes for a marriage between his daughter Kate and the son of his best friend, Charles Marlow, a young man who seems perfect in every way apart from his excruciating shyness in the presence of respectable ladies. Mrs Hardcastle hopes for a marriage between her son Tony Lumpkin and her ward, the heiress Constance Neville. But Tony is far more interested in local girl Bet Bouncer and Constance is far more interested in her secret fiancé George Hastings, Charles Marlow’s best friend. When Marlow and Hastings get lost en route to visit Hardcastle, Tony Lumpkin directs them to an “Inn” - which is in fact his step-father’s house. The scene is set for a series of comic misunderstandings and misadventures: in the words of the play’s sub-title,“The Mistakes of a Night”.
