Dad's Army - May 2008

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Written by Jimmy Perry & David Croft

Directed by Phillip Willing

Cast List  
Captain Mainwaring   Bill Beck
Sergeant Wilson   Colin Mepstead
L/Cpl Jones   Pat Sanders
Private Frazer   Steve Berry
Private Godfrey   William Law
Private Walker   Gerald Flanagan
Private Pike   Simon King
Private Cheeseman   Jack Homewood
Private Sponge   Tony Fairclough
Private Hancock   Darren Hammock
Private Day   John Monks
Rev. Timothy Farthing   David Tummon
Mr Yeatman, the Verger   Peter Gray
Mr Hodges, the ARP Warden   Chris Young
U-boat Captain   Andy Stringer
Colonel   Mick Willis
Mrs Fox   Jean Willis
Mrs Gray   Kathy West
Mrs Pike   Leanne Kempster
Ivy Samways   Danielle Feekings
Edith Parrish   Liane West
Waitresses   Pam Balderston & Jodi Freghter
U-boat crew   Daniel Harbour, Terry Pilcher, Neil Thorne & David Tummon
ARP Wardens   Daniel Harbour & Neil Thorne
Mr Gordon, Town Clerk   Terry Pilcher
Porter   Neil Thorne
Servicemen   Daniel Harbour & David Tummon
Godiva Girls   Mel Bowcock, Danielle Feekings, Jodi Freghter, Sophie Godfrey & Jo Godman
Mrs Prosser   Emma Ansley
Mrs Hart   Danielle Feekings
Miss Ironside   Emma Ansley

This production was our entry in the Kent Drama Association's 2008 Full-Length Play Festival.

Steve Berry won the award for 'Best Actor in a Supporting Role' for his portrayal of Private Frazer.

The Society received runners-up certificates in the following categories:
'Achievement in Wardrobe',
'Most Effective Use of Limited Space (the Alan Birch Award)',
'Initiative in Stage Presentation',
'Best Newcomer' (for Simon King's portrayal of Private Pike)

The production recreates three episodes and an additional scene from the popular TV series


"The Deadly Attachment"
The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon has to guard a captured U-boat crew. But the fearless Captain Mainwaring incurs German displeasure when he orders the defiant prisoners to be served soggy fish and chips.

"Your name vill also go in ze book - vot is it?"
"Don't tell him Pike"


"You vill take us to ze harbour; one false move
and I vill pull ze pin from ze grenade in his trousers"


"Mum's Army"
The Home Guard are recruiting women. However, Mrs Mainwaring has not left the house since Münich so she will not be joining her husband's platoon. So when a newcomer with a touch of class, Mrs Gray, joins the platoon, Captain Mainwaring sets tongues wagging with a brief encounter.

Some of the platoon's new recruits


Mrs Gray leaves Walmington


"The Godiva Affair"
The platoon are rehearsing their Morris dancing routine as part of a fund- raising carnival parade which will include a ride past by Lady Godiva. After a heated selection process, Captain Mainwaring has a nasty surprise when there is a last minute substitution for Godiva.

Sgt Wilson's hobby-horse raises a few eyebrows


Captain Mainwaring tries to calm the waters between Mrs Fox and Jones, but ends up making things worse


The Town Clerk gets excited thinking about
Lady Godiva in "fleshings"


Wilson tries to keep Pike away
from the prospective Godivas


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