An August bank holiday lark (July, 2017)
August 1914, Wakes Week in Greenmill, and preparations are underway for the annual Rushbearing Festival.
War rumbles in the distance, but, for now, family feuds, a blossoming romance and rehearsals for Morris dancing are the main preoccupations.
The older men are concerned to preserve the old traditions, but as the younger ones prepare to enlist, to what will they return – if they return at all?
Voted Best New Play of 2014 at the UK Theatre Awards, An August Bank Holiday Lark is warm, funny, sad, moving, and full of the shared humanity of a long established community coping with grief and the changes facing it in a world that will never be the same again.
Production team
- Director: Chris Avery
- Assistant Director: Alex Priestley
- Set Designer: Chris Avery
- Set Construction: Paul Philpott, Tony Broscomb, Ron Meadows
- Stage Manager: Tim Brunton
- Deputy Stage Manager: Anna Perry
- Lighting Design: Martin Avery
- Sound Operator: Simon Munford
- Costume Supervisor: Brenda Cottis
- Costume: Alex Priestley
- Props: Anna Frayling-Cork, Kate Crofts, Kitty Foster
- Lighting Operator: Diane Winkleby
- Hair and Make-up: Hannah Curtis
- Production Manager: Julie Petrucci
- Script Assistance: Bob Bright
- Musical Arrangment: Danielle Padley
- Poster and Programme Design: Paul Philpott
Cast list
- John Farrar: Peter Simmons
- Ted Farrar: George Kirby-Smith
- Mary Farrar: Jodie Haughton
- Will Farrar: Kamen Watson
- Alice Armitage: Tracy James
- Frank Armitage: Michael Dodds
- Jim Haworth: Andrew Shepherd
- Alan Ramsden: John Pickering
- Herbert Tweddle: Chris Hay
- Dick Shaw: Richard Sockett
- Edie Stapleton: Lucy Woodcock
- Susie Hughes: Danielle Padley
- Melodeon Player: Chris Harris