• edith harnham
• arthur harnham
• letty harnham
• anna
• charles bradford
• sarah

• Director
• assistant director
• Stage Management
• Lighting Design
• sound design
• Lighting & Sound
• Continuity
• Set design
• wardrobe
• s
• programme/Poster design

• susan everest
• stephen newberry
• mary young
• lindsey holledge
• stephen cowles
• ann harvey

• margaret kennedy
• sharon besant
• gill watson, cicely ridley
• paddy turner
• dave stansbury
• brenda hanham
• alan clifford
• dorothy hemsley
• margaret kennedy, marie mason
• alan lade

HERE'S A HOMELY DRAMA THAT'S A REAL TREAT TO WATCH
Review by Shirley Linsell

Set against one of the best sets the Little Theatre has ever had, with costumes that are so delightful to the eye and with direction by the multi-talented Margaret Kennedy, Seaford has a real treat to watch.
The play, by Frank Harvey, adapted from Thomas Hardy, is set in the late 1890s and is the story of a tangled web woven by Edith, a very bored and unhappy wife, who writes letters on her maid Anna's behalf to a young man who Anna has met after the fair. Anna is unable to write and read well and so the wife finds an outlet for repressed emotions.
Edith is married to Arthur, a brewer, who is pompous, boring but at times, kindly. His sister is Letty who runs the house and she is fond of her sister in law and understands her more than Arthur does. There is maid called Sarah, a jolly little busybody. The lover is Charles, a pompous ambitious and probably cruel man.
Susan Everest plays Edith and you feel her pain and unhappiness and she only experiences life through writing the letters.
Lindsey Holledge is Anna and she is brilliant as the sometimes thoughtless girl who is madly in love.
No one can do with her face what Mary Young does. She conveys disapproval, kindness and bewilderment sometimes in one scene. She plays Letty.
Stephen Newberry portraying for him a very serious part is outstanding as Arthur.
The lover is Stephen Cowles and it is good to see him back.
Ann Harvey is Sarah and it is a clever and funny performance.
The backstage effects are brilliant and it is a very talented team.
The play finishes with the future for the two couples not that good, but Sarah the maid has a real chance of happiness.
The whole production team are wonderful. And the Bafta this time goes to - but only just - Susan Everest because in the last scene she got this cynical critic to have a tear in her eye.