Written By
Elizabeth Addyman
Where and When
10th – 12th March 1994 @ The Allendale Centre, Wimborne
The Plot
A young wife who has been missing and presumed murdered returns home – physically unharmed but obviously having suffered a traumatic experience – only to find that her husband’s feelings for her have completely changed. With the help of her mother-in-law, whom she had always taken to be her enemy, she eventually regains the love of her husband and the happiness and stability of her marriage is restored in a moving clilmax to a highly-charged emotional drama.
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Cast
- Christopher Martyn – James Ruegg
- Ruth Martyn – Carolyn Woodward
- Naomi Martyn – Pam Feltham
- Miss Mitchum-Browne – Margaret Pope
- Ernie Briggs – Michael Dodds
- Inspecter Thornton – Richard Neal
- Miss Pearce – Eileen Dunnachie
Creative Team
- Director – Barbara Trebilco
- Stage Manager – Jenny Tempier
- ASM – Peter Timperley
- Set Designer – Joe Brooks
- Set Construction – Joe Brooks and Dave Gordon
- Properties – Chrissie Wathen and Shirley Ilott
- Sound – Joe Brooks
- Prompt – Jan Stevenson
- Lighting – Chris Richards and Neil Watkins
- Wardrobe – Joyce Eidmans and The Cast
- Make-up – Amanda Selway
- Publicity and Poster Design – Richard Neal
- Front of House – Joyce Eidmans
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Reviews
Murky secrets in this drama at Allendale
A missing wife, a battered corpse and a catalogue of murky secrets are the key elements of this engrossing drama by Elizabet Addyman.
Chrisopher Martyn is distraught when hiw wife Ruth fails to return from an outing to the cinema. But his equanimity is bruised all the more when her disappearance set in motion a series of disturbing revelations.
James Ruegg’s convincint portrayal of a man struggling to cope with increasingly complex emotions is a major strength of Barbara Trebilco’s brisky paced production. So too is Pam Feltham’s authoritative portrayal of his fortright mother, Naomi.
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