Curtain Up by Peter Quilter

Plot

Based on the author’s earlier Respecting Your Piers, Curtain Up! is the hilarious story of five women who inherit equal shares in a dilapidated theatre and plan to bring it back to life again. They try various fund-raising schemes but their most ambitious is to hold a concert featuring local talent and a world-famous star who agrees to appear for no fee! However, their plans go awry…

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Cast list

Theresa (daughter of deceased) Pam (Theresa’s mother, ex-wife of deceased) Sharon (executive assistant to deceased) Betty (Pam’s mother-in-law) Jackie (the other woman)

Frederica Everett Lynn Lunn Janet Duchesne Barbara Laird Alison O’Neil

Back stage

Director	Rosemary Gillett
Stage Manager	Chrissie Robinson
Choreography	Rosemary Gillett, Barbara Laird, Chrissie Robinson, Janet Duchesne and members of the cast
Prompt	Antoinette Mehra
Set, Poster and Programme Design	Jo Compton
Set Builders	Tony Woodliffe, Steve Knowlden, Will Lunn and Kevin Swaine
Costume	members of the cast
Props	Chrissie Robinson
Stage Crew	Stephen Knowlden and Kevin Swaine
Projection Operator	Stephen Knowlden
Lighting Operator	Peter Horwood
Sound Operator	Tony Woodliffe