Broad Street Wrington Drama Club ARCHIVE
How the Other Half Loves

Thursday, 13th May, 2004


CAST
Frank Foster   Peter Jones
Fiona Foster   Linda Roberts
Bob Phillips   Keith Ivory
Teresa Phillips   Kate Morley
William Featherstone   Mark Bullen
Mary Featherstone   Sarah Miller
Director   Wendy Tandy
Producer   Andrew Tandy
Stage Manager   Julie Green
Deputy Stage Manager   Barry Sale
Front of House Manager  

Echo Irving
Set Design   John Graham
Prompt  

Maggie Carpenter
Lighting   John Davey
Sound   Miche Dunstone, Gemma Ramsden
Props   Rebecca Bryce, CaroIine Osman
Rosemary Osman
Costume   Valerie Langley
Make-up   Judy Lane, Annie Tarleton
Hair   Sue Cross
Advertising   Andrew Tandy
As the programme synopsis has it, "the action takes place at two dinner parties given on consecutive nights.
The single set is almost a character in itself, so important is it to the action. It represents two living/dining-rooms at once.

The furniture, and often the people of the two places are intermingled, most notably in the scene that closes the first act, when one hapless couple is having Thursday dinner with another pair and Friday dinner with a third."
Day 1 begins with a worried Fiona trying to contact lover Bob, but only getting his wife ...
... whereas Frank, oblivious to this, starts his day with some not very successful physical jerks ...
... he then does succeed in raising Bob, to ask him to come to work early ...

... but before he leaves, he has his usual moan at Teresa over housekeeping, child-care ... and breakfast ...
... which duly ends up in his lap ...
... Frank, meanwhile, gives Fiona the anniversary present she'd have had last night if she hadn't forgotten about it and stayed out with Bob ...

... who doesn't manage to come up with a plausible explanation of his absence for Teresa ...
... and when the two naughty lovebirds do make contact, it's a difficult call with their respective spouses still around ...

... in Bob's case, wondering why his shoe's in the toy box.
His parting shot is to give Teresa a whole tenner "to buy something useful, like decent food ...
... which is, perhaps, what prompts her to ring and invite the Featherstones round to dinner tomorrow evening ...
... Frank has yet to go as he's worried about sorting out a recalcitrant electric toothbrush ...
At his eventual departure he drops the bombshell that he's invited the same couple that very evening, and the two women are left composing their very different menus ...