Getting Married
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1962.

by Bernard Shaw

When the daughter of a Bishop decides on her wedding day not to go through with the ceremony, the reaction of the assembled family are many and hilarious.  In sorting out the tangle, the views of the Church, State, and Army are forcefully put- not to mention those of self-professed snobs, and the wife of the local coal merchant.  Shaw’s armoury shoots at the English class-snobbery, Puritanism, and sentimentality with explosively funny results.

 

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Mrs.  Bridgenorth:   Monica Stewart
Collins:  William Ingram
General Bridgenorth:  Arthur Pentelow
Lesbia Grantham:   Georgine Anderson
Reginald Bridgenorth:   Desmond Gill
Leo:  Joseph Hilary
Bishop of Chelsea:  Ralph Nossek
St. John Hotchkiss:   Derek Jacobi
Cecil Sykes:     Paul Carson
Edith:  Lesley Nunnerley
Soames:   John Southworth
The Beadle:  Frank Ellis
Mrs. George:   Peggy Thorpe-Bates

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