Night Must Fall Programme

So what is BHADS? We are the Broad Hinton Amateur Dramatic Society, formed to produce entertainment for the local community (and ourselves). We welcome, and are always ready to include anyone who is interested in taking part in any way, be it on or off stage. Please contact one of the following: Mark Miller 731231 Sally Cartwright 731050 Alex LaRoche 731850 Nick Moakes 731241 Marilyn Martin 731521 Chris O’Neill 731365 BHADS Costumes As many of you know, BHADS has built up quite a collection of costumes over the years. These costumes are now available to hire at £10 a time. The best way to hire a costume is to contact Sally Cartwright in the first instance by email to find out if we have what you need, and to arrange a time to try out costumes. Broad Hinton Village Hall Email address: [email protected] or 01793 731050. July 7th, 8th, 9th 2016 Think of us next time you are invited to a fancy dress bash! at 7.30pm Night Must Fall 1964, was reprised with Albert Finney as the star. Stage revivals have included a 1999 one on Broadway with Matthew Broderick and quite recently in the West End with Jason Donovan. In 1938 Emlyn Williams wrote perhaps the most famous play for which he is remembered – “The Corn Is Green” – Night Must Fall is a psychological thriller set in the 1930s. It was closely based on Williams’s own life- written by Emlyn Williams and was first directed by Miles Malleson story, it, too, was turned into a famous with the author playing the part of Dan in 1935. film in 1945: a vehicle for Bette Davis who played – it has to be said somewhat unconvincingly - Miss The cast and director have enjoyed the challenge of building the Moffat, the school-teacher, the 1937 Film version, with Robert characters and plot of this interesting play and hope that you will character based on Williams’s own Montgomery as Dan and Dame May Whitty as Mrs Bramson appreciate our efforts. teacher Miss Cooke, and of course was set in a small Welsh village: Or rather the Hollywood version of one. The play was decidedly better than the film and - who knows – maybe our own team of Broad Hinton thespians will revive it, too, for us one day! Emlyn Williams’s stage career both in front of the footlights and with his pen continued through the war and into the post-war period. His light comedy “The Druid’s Rest”, loosely based on his own life, saw the stage debut of fellow Welshman Richard Burton and he was famed for his one- man shows of Dickens, Dylan Thomas and H.H.Munro (‘Saki’). In the cinema he was equally prolific, appearing in, among many others, ‘The Citadel’, ‘Hatter’s Castle’, ‘The Last Days Of Dolwyn’, ‘Three Husbands’ and ‘The Deep Blue Sea’. He wrote numerous screenplays as well as two revealing autobiographies, “George” and “Emlyn” and a very famous book – “Beyond Belief” - about The Moors Murders. Made a CBE in 1962, he died in 1981. Article by Roy Oakshott Emlyn Williams Actor and writer EMLYN WILLIAMS, the author of tonight’s play, was born Prologue The court of Criminal Appeal into a Welsh-speaking working-class family in Glan yr Afon, Mostyn, Flintshire on 26th November 1905. A promising child, he was fortunate enough to be taken under the wing of a brilliant teacher, Miss Sarah Grace Cooke and it The action of the play takes place in the sitting room of was thanks in large part to her belief in the boy that at the age of eleven he won a scholarship to Holywell Grammar School and concluded his school “Forest Corner” Mrs. Bramson’s bungalow in Essex. days by winning a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. His theatrical career began when he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). In 1927 he went into Rep, ACT 1 A fine morning in October gaining invaluable knowledge of all aspects of stagecraft, both acting and Interval writing. It was with “Night Must Fall”, though, which he wrote and starred in in ACT 2 1935, that Williams’s Scene 1 An afternoon, twelve days later. career really took off and he became an ‘overnight Scene 2 Late afternoon, two days later. sensation’. The play marked a new departure for the genre of Murder Interval Mystery/Whodunit/Thriller with its emphasis on the psychological aspect of the ACT 3 characters and it became a Scene 1 Half an hour later box-office smash. It was picked up by Hollywood in Scene 2 Half an hour later 1937 with Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell and Dame May The bar will be open during both intervals Whitty in the principal roles and, much later in Cast Back Stage Crew Lord Chief Justice Roy Oakshott Prompt Jenny Oakshott Mrs. Bramson Sally Cartwright Stage Manager Chris Horan Olivia Grayne Marilyn Martin Assistant Stage Managers Jenny Clarke Hubert Laurie Paul Thomas Candace Gaisford Nurse Libby Jenni Moseling Costumes Sally Cartwright Mrs. Terence Christine Lawrence Sound and Effects Steve Cutler Dora Parkhoe Sarah Kromer Lighting Mark Cooper Inspector Belsize Jerry Marshall Set Builders Chris O’Neill Dan Nick Moakes Dave Eagle Directed by Jane O’Neill Set decoration and front of house by members of Bhads Poster and programmes designed and produced by Liz Moakes .

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