• The Man
• The Inspector
• The Priest
• The Woman
• The Tramp
• The Nurse

• Director
• Stage Management Team
• Lighting Design
• Sound Design
• Lighting & Sound
• S
• Continuity
• Set Design
• wardrobe
• programme/Poster design

• Edd Ginn
• Alan Lade
• Christyan James
• Sue Shephard
• Angie Wright
• Josie Hobbs

• Garry Fowler
• Ray & Debbie Cox
• Gary English
• Alan Lade
• Phil Armstrong & Dennis Picott
• Sharon Olieff
• Alan Lade
• Deborah Lade
• Alan lade

SEAFORD SCENE Review by Andrea Hargreaves

I believe that I have alluded to French windows featuring in more than a few of this company's sets. Well. the panoramic glass in this production was as different from the English suburban garden variety as plains from the mountains painted so dramatically on the backdrop. \Nhen the curtains parted the audience clapped readying us for a great evening's entertainment.

Directer Garry Fowler kept this psychological thriler by French playwright Robert Thomas - he helped invent the comedy-thriller genre - romping along with the first act played as much for laughs as for scene-setting drama. But as
the situation became darker and the frame-up more frightening, Fowler ramped up the chill factor to make us suffer along with the man who rented a remote chalet near the resort of Chamonix only to have his wife disappear, and then be confronted with a woman daiming she is his spouse. lncroyable ou non?

In fact Little Theatre newcomer Edd Ginn made the plot all too believable as he at first stuttered through his disbelief, became angry, despairing and desperate by turns in what is a challenging role. Welcome to this stage Ginn.

Sue Shephard took the part of the woman with cunning charm, by turns soft and schemingly hard, putting in a polished perfcrmance that defied a stint immediately before this production in an Alan Ayckbourn play for Lewes Little Theatre.

Alan Lade. who designed the awesome set played lnspectors Nice and Nasty as the detective investigating the case of the missing wife, making clever deductions and entrapment with all the speed of a stereotypical rural gendarme.

Timing is all in both comedy and drama and Shephard - where did she learn her prowess with a gun? - worked sharply with a second Little Theatre newcomer, Christyan James, playing a priest who claims to have found Ginn's wife. James showed his heritage as a trained actor and it would be great to see more of him on the local stage.

Two women who know the man's wife should be able to persuade Lade that the deserted husband isn't a maniac. Angie Wright as the hippy tramp and key witness provided wonderful light relief but her comedic moment was all too short as she was inconveniently killed off just when we wanted more.

Josie Hobbs who not only took on the inspector's role but also played against Fowler when he acted and directed the play for Meeching Amateur Dramatics effectively took on the role of the slippery nurse who puts cash before truth.

This was a well chosen play, performed by talented actors and directed with skill. Arid let's also say a votre sante to the Wednesday Workshop Team who
assembied the set that transported us to the Alps. No wonder this production. staged with a comparatively short rehearsal period was so rapturously received.