FROM THE ARCHIVES

Season: 2022-2023

11th – 18th November 2022 at 7:45pm Husbands and Sons

By D H Lawrence

Adapted by Ben Power

Directed by
Jan Palmer Sayer

The wives and mothers of the village of Eastwood struggle to hold families and souls together in the shadow of the great Brinsley pit.

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CAST

The Holroyds

Lizzie Holroyd, a miner’s wife

Charles Holroyd, her husband

Grandmother, Holroyd’s mother

Jack Holroyd, their young son

Charlie Evans, Harrison Evans

Blackmore, an electrician and friend of Lizzie’s

Clara, a woman from Nottingham

Loretta Freeman

Laura, a woman from Nottingham

The Gascoignes

Mrs Gascoigne, widow of a miner

Joe Gascoigne, her youngest son

Sean Scotchford

Luther Gascoigne, her eldest son

Patrick Sunners

Minnie Gascoigne, Luther’s new wife

Mrs Purdy, a neighbour of the Gascoignes

The Lamberts

Lydia Lambert, a miner’s wife

Walter Lambert, a miner, Lydia’s husband

Nellie Lambert, her daughter

Ernest Lambert, their son

Jonathon Wallis

Maggie Pearson, Ernest’s girlfriend

Gertie Coomber, Nellie’s best friend

Hannah Tuson-Heasley

Others

Joe Carlin a miner

CREATIVE TEAM

Stage Manager

Lighting

Sound

Wardrobe

Shelagh Maughan

Properties

Madeleine Evans, Angela Reiss

Assistant Stage Manager

Madeleine Evans, Owen Freeman-Howell

Rehearsal Prompt

Set Construction

Chris Brunton, Mike Day, Paul Day, Ian Evans, Terry Knight, Chris Janes, Richard Martin, Paul Morton

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