Marlborough Dramatic Club for the

Brentwood Aits Festival presents

'Sarajevo' Agt)ne-Act play by Margaret C o n y

and The Mother's Story'

A poem by Janet Cass

also an excerpt from frhis Happy Breed' by

Noel Coward

Shenfield Parish Hall on 11th July, 2014

Doors open 7.30 pm Performance at 8 pm

'SARAJEVO' written and directed by Margaret Cony

28™ June, 1914

One of the most significant days in World History. This drama is the author's imaginary account of the domestic

circumstances of that morning.

Baron von Still fried and Countess Tlierese Chotek are fictional characters necessary to portray the dramatic truth of the occasion

CAST (in order of appearance)

Baron Wilhelm von Stillfried - Emissary from Emperor Franz-Joseph and friend to Archduke Franz-Ferdinand Reg Wheeler

Countess Therese Chotek - Cousin and unofficial lady in waiting to Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg Juliette Bird

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg - Morganatic wife of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand Suzanne Newman

Archduke Franz-Ferdinand - Nephew of Emperor Franz-Joseph and Hapsburg Heir apparent Graham Poulteney

Scene 1 - Hotel Bosnia, Hidze, six miles west of Sarajevo - 8 a,m.

Scene 2 - The same - 2.p.m

' T H E M O T H E R S STORY' A poem composed and narrated by Janet Cass

The scene is a farmhouse -during the Great War

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I N T E R V A L Supper will be served in the

Gwendolyn Lewis Room

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and now looking ahead.

A n excerpt from This Happy Breed'

by Noel Coward Directed by Patricia Staley

Hie Gibbons family move into tlicir new home -June 1919

C A S T

Frank Gibbons Ethel Gibbons, Ins wife Mrs Flint, her mother Sylvia, Frank's sister Bob Mitchell

William WeUs Lindsey Crutchett

Jean Morgan Lynne Coldwell

David Staley

- In memory of Jean Morris who played the role of Mrs Flint in our original production