archive 1957

18 February – 2 March
Separate Tables
by Terence Rattigan

This play, or rather two plays, is Terence Rattigan’s second attempt at a double bill and is an even greater success than the first (The Browning Version and Harlequinade). Separate Tables is different from all previous double bills, for both plays (Table by the Window and Table Number Seven) take place in the same hotel and have largely the same characters.

Terence Rattigan’s sense of Theatre is profound, his great gift of dialogue, his ability to give the right words to his characters show his observations and understanding of humanity have never been more keen.

Artistic Credits

Director: Nancy Poultney
Designer: Jean Love
Stage Director: Hugh Mathias
Stage Manager: Nora McKelvie
Carpenter: Harry Brooks
Electrician: Ann Goodliffe
Assistant Stage Managers: Geoffrey Russell and Denis Roberts

Cast:

Table By The Window

Mabel: Eleanor Darling
Lady Metheson: Dorothy Gibson
Mrs Railton-Bell: Marion Mathie
Miss Meacham: Anne Woodward
Doreen: Sylvia Kay
Mr Fowler: John Wentworth
Mrs Shankland: Gwendoline Watford
Miss Cooper: Barbara Bolton
Mr Malcolm: Tony Church
Charles Stratton: Dinsdale Landen
Jean Tanner: Glenda Jackson

Table Number Seven

Jean Stratton: Glenda Jackson
Charles Stratton: Dinsdale Landen
Major Pollock: Tony Church
Mr Fowler: John Wentworth
Miss Cooper: Barbara Bolton
Mrs Railton-Bell: Marion Mathie
Miss Railton-Bell: Gwendoline Watford
Lady Metheson: Dorothy Gibson
Miss Meacham: Anne Woodward
Doreen: Sylvia Key

Production Photograph

Dorothy Gibson, Dinsdale Lansden, Glenda Jackson, Marion Mathie, Eleanor Darling, Anne Woodward, Sylvia Kay and John Wentworth