Anonymous Players

 

 

 

 

Production Details

188th Production - My Mother Said, I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley

Presented at Lowther Pavilion - 27 to 30 April 1994.

Directed by Ian Rowe.
 

 

 

 

 


Outline of Play

This play was first performed at the Contact Theatre in Manchester on 25 February 1987 and in a revised version at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 February 1989.

The author said "I wrote this play when I was twenty-five, because I didn't know any plays about Mothers and Daughters. It seems to me that a woman's relationship with her mother - that strange bond of love and jealousy - has a lifelong and unavoidable influence ..."

 

 

 

 

 

  Synopsis of Scenes

 

The action of the play takes place in Manchester, Oldham and London between the years of 1905 and 1985.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Cast

 

Rosie Metcalf

Kirsty Clancy

 

Jackie Metcalf

Barbara Wolfe

 

Margaret Bradley

Di Prutton

 

Doris Partington

Barbara Cash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Stage Crew

 

Stage Managers

Rod Pothecary and Sarah Britton

 

Assistant Stage Manager

June Crawshaw

 

Sound

Michael Ward

 

Lighting

Tim Edwards

 

Set Design and Dressing

Ian Rowe and Heather Town

 

Properties

Sue Dale

 

Dressers

Nancy Whittle and Shirley Croasdale