The Day After The Fair
By Frank Harvey.
Director: Nigel Banks.
Whitstable Playhouse
25, 26 27 March, 2010
THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR - SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS – In this skilful adaptation of Thomas
Hardy’s short story On The Western Circuit a chance meeting between
Anna Dunsford, a servant girl, and Charles Bradford, a young, aspiring
barrister, at the town fair leads to serious consequences for them and
others. A second meeting the next day results in the inevitable, unwanted
expectation! Charles returns to London. Anna, who thinks herself genuinely
in love, can barely read and write, so asks Edith Harnham, her mistress,
to carry on a correspondence with the young man on her behalf. In writing
the girl’s love letters and reading out his replies, Edith finds
herself also falling in love vicariously. Charles, unaware of the deception,
proposes marriage to Anna when he hears that she is pregnant. Only when
it is too late does he discover the true identity of the writer of the
letters that have so bewitched him - the person with whom he is really
in love. The play ends with the “unhappy” couple setting off
for London, leaving Edith, whose own marriage is hardly blissful, desolate.
Period: late 19th century.
CAST
As Edith Harnham
As Arthur Harnham
Mike Ayris
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Mike Ayris
Actor: La Ronde; Play
It Again Sam; Arsenic And Old
Lace; Day
After The Fair
Michael has been with the Canterbury Players for many years, first acting
in Sailor Beware at the old Marlowe. He went on to study theatre at the
Rose Bruford College and worked professionally for a time. His love of
acting keeps him in touch with the society and he is always open to new
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As Letty Harnman
Tessa Taylor
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Tessa Taylor
Actor: Much Ado About
Nothing; Day
After The Fair;
Tessa has been a Drama teacher in London and Surrey. She trained in Cheltenham
from 1960-63, performed at the Everyman Theatre, and then directed school
plays at the Thorndike in Leatherhead.
Moving to Canterbury in 1991, she joined Playcraft, played (among other
rôles) Maggie in ‘Hobson’s Choice’ and Natasha
in ‘Three Sisters’. Last year she completed her training for
the Church. So she has gone from the stage to the classroom to the pulpit.
There is a theme there!
Shakespeare's Much
Ado About Nothing is her first production with the Canterbury Players.
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As Anna
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Isabel Briccolani
Actor: Day
After The Fair
Isabel is currently in her first year of 6th form at Chaucer Technology School studying Music, Law, Sociology and her favourite Theatre Studies!
Isabel has been performing since she was young, starting tap and jazz at the tender age of 5. Then moved dancing school to start ballet at Jane Guy School of Dancing where she is currently studying Intermediate Ballet and jazz. Isabel has performed in many venues around Kent including Kings Hall in Hernbay, Marlowe Theatre performing in The Jungle Book and a professional dance show Celtic Journey, Gulbenkian and The Playhouse in Whitstable. Day After The Fair is Isabel's debut with The Canterbury Players but is looking forward to many more fun performances with them in the future! |
As Charles Bradford
Adam Summers. Actor.
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Adam Summers
Actor: Much Ado About
Nothing; Two; Day
After The Fair
Assistant Stage Manager: "Arsenic
And Old Lace"
Assistant Stage Construction and Lighting Engineer: "Bazaar
& Rummage".
Adam joined the Canterbury Players as a result of an email that asked
him to come along to an audition for 'Much
Ado About Nothing'. The rest as they say is history.
Adam has always loved drama and as a result, studied the subject at college.
He has appeared in a number of productions, where he has played roles
such as Hatch in 'The Sea', Algernon in 'The Importance
of Being Earnest' and Napoleon in a musical version of George
Orwell's 'Animal Farm’.
He is greatly looking forward to future productions with the Players.
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As Sarah
Louise Gibbins. Actor. Publicity.
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Louise Gibbins
Actor: Play It Again Sam;
Gosforth’s Fete;
The Accrington Pals;
La Ronde; Much
Ado About Nothing; Bazaar and Rummage
by Sue Townsend; Woman in Two; Day
After The Fair
Louise joined the Players in 2006 & has since been involved in several
productions.
The first was Harold Pinter’s ‘The
Birthday Party’ where she was the official teapot bearer between
Acts II & III. Following the success of teapot placement, she was
cast as Councillor Mrs Pearce in Alan Ayckborne’s ‘Gosforth’s
Fete’. Louise proved herself to be a massive hit when Charlie
Jubber (Gosforth) omitted to catch her as she fell off the podium backwards.
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In Schnitzler's ‘La
Ronde’, she played a prostitute which was lucky as Louise was
concerned about being typecast! Louise also appeared in the production,
"The Accrington
Pals" by Peter Whelan. Here, she played Sarah, a hardworking
but fun loving mother in her late twenties.
Louise is seeking film extra work, her public profiles on casting websites
can be found HERE
and HERE.
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