This play is about a complex group of people living in a middle-class boarding house The Rosamund Tea Rooms in a small town on the Thames in Britain during the Second World War. This is essentially a story about loneliness and disappointment. We will see difficulties arising from social differences and entanglements with the threat of war never very far away but we know in the words of one of the characters that "it will all come out in the wash". The play has been adapted from the novel, "The Slaves of Solitude" by Patrick Hamilton written in 1943/44. He also wrote plays, his first being "Rope" which was made into a famous experimental film by Alfred Hitchcock. Some other plays were "Money With Menaces", "The Duke of Darkness" and the very well known "Gaslight", last produced in the Little Theatre in March 1994.

WRITTEN BY FRANK VICKERY DIRECTED BY JANET WIND

Presented at The Little Theatre 8th to 13 October 2001 PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW

CAST SYLVIA COLLINS JIM RACE SUE CLARK SYLVIA BERTIE DON WALKER TONY RUSHTON

Tony Rushton Tony joined the Progressive Players in 1960, and was an active member until 1967. Some 33 years later he returned to the theatre and re-united with many of his friends of yester-year. Recent appearances in "Mort" and "That Good Night" and most recently 'Miss Roach's War'. Sadly Tony was taken ill after about 20 minutes on the first night of Miss Roach's War and despite efforts to revive him died in the wings on 8th October 2001. Tony was a keen golfer and theatre goer. He had been heard to say that when he went, he wanted it to be while doing something he loved. At the last he had his wish. Tony will be greatly missed by his many friends in the Little Theatre and elsewhere.