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1951 or earlier, venue unknown
Should the vicar’s wife continue her own career at the expense of her husband’s? There is also a son arrested for sedition, parish dilemmas and the wife’s battle to support her clinic. The solution is precipitated by a parishioner in love with the vicar. The play seems by its description quaint and old-fashioned, but harks back to an era when a woman’s place really was in the home, the doings of the Church Of England really mattered and the vicar was a staple of English society and therefore comedy. One might even call the play progressive by suggesting that there was a conflict between those assumptions and a married woman’s aspirations. But without knowing more about the play, it’s impossible to judge. We don’t have a cast list but the lead couple look like Bill Loraine and Joyce Stacey. The two young men near the centre of the cast photo seem to be brothers and look like older versions of the John and Clem Fredrick seen in the cast of New 66 from 1946, which suggests a much later date than 1947. Ellen George’s handwritten note dates the show to 1951, which suggests that the past production listed in 1947 was a reduced wartime show. |
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