Director: Diana Patterson
The Cast
Dick Tassell
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Tim Page
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Rainbow
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George Allsop
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Rupert Billings
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Richard Adams
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Godfrey Pond
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Bob Widdowson
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Evelyn Whitchurch
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Julie Phillips
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Miss Gossage
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Di Widdowson
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Hocroft
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Jill Forrester
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Barbara Cahoun
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Kelly Dulieu
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Joyce Harper
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Diane Clayton Smith
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Rev Edward Peck
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Mark Attlee
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Mrs Peck
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Lydia Manship
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Edgar Sowter
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Mike Patterson
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Mrs Sowter
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Pat Thompson
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The happiest days of your life
Our November 2001 was the gentle farce  by John Dighton.
This was set in the masters' common room of Hilary Hall School for Boys in the summer term just after the Second World War had ended.  The masters find out that St Swithin's, a girls' school, is to be billeted upon them after a clerical error at the Ministry of Devacuation.  The staff try desperately to conceal the fact that the boys and girls are housed together, but in vain, for some of the parents find out.  They are about to remove their offspring when a message arrives: a third school is to share Hilary Hall.  Against this common enemy, both staff and parents unite to barricade the gates.
Some people might have remembered this as a hilarious 1950's film starring Joyce Grenfield as the love struck gym teacher, Alistair Sym and Margaret Rutherford as the Heads of the respective establishments.  The play itself has a very different plot from the film, but our audience seemed to enjoy it greatly and some older spectators told us how much it reminded them of thir own schooldays.  There was avery large cast and the two younger new recruits proved a real revelation.
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