Dunedin
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| Prisoners of Mother England | |
| by Roger Hall Opening Night 04 December 2003 | |
| Director: Nigel Ensor | |
| Prisoners of Mother England was one of Hall�s early plays, written in the late 1970s while he was employed at the University of Otago. Like many of his plays, this is a comedy with sharp undertones. The predictable one-liners are there, along with the humour that appears superficial but which masks deeper feelings of confusion and pain. Life is not easy for these new arrivals; they had hoped for a better life but had not realised how much they had been shaped by what they had left behind. Some managed to make the transition easily, some with difficulty, a few not at all. They lived through a time of political turbulence, when everything that had at first seemed so easy became more difficult. The good life of the late 50s and early 60s when butter was �ninepence a pound, cigarettes two shillings for twenty, �petrol three bob a gallon� moved gradually into troops being sent into Vietnam, the introduction of decimal currency and the Wahine disaster. | |
| Cast | |
| Presenter | Vincent Wong |
| Stanley | Campbell Thomson |
| Vera | Marilyn Parker |
| Gerry | Chris Summers |
| Maureen | Toni White |
| Ken | Steve McNamara |
| Shirley | Katrina Yelavich |
| Philip | Chris Reid |
| Louise | Katherine Beresford |
| New Zealanders | Natalie Milne |
| Andrew Morrison | |
| David Thompson | |
| Doug Leggett | |
| Marie Steele | |
| Crew | |
| Production Manager | H-J Kilkelly |
| Technical Director | David Manley |
| Stage Manager | Christine Hurst |
| Stage Hand/Props | Ellen Stewart |
| Lighting Operation | Angus Dingwall |
| Kathy Creswell-Moorcock | |
| Wardrobe | Roz McKechnie |
| Anna Findley | |
| Poster Design | Kathryn Madill |
| Photographer | Reg Graham |
| Front of House | Murray Robertson |
| Alison Finigan | |
