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The Small Hours

by Frances Durbridge
November 2024

What do a koala bear, an emerald necklace, and a flight bag have in common?
Find out in this thriller of suspense, mystery, and of course, murder!

ACT I

Scene 1: Coming Home

Scene 2: Several days later. 7pm

Scene 3: The following morning

Scene 4: 9pm that night

Scene 5: The next morning

Scene 6: In the small hours of the next day


ACT II

Scene 1: Several hours later the same morning

Scene 2: Evening of the same day

Scene 3: An hour later

Scene 4: Later the same evening


The Setting

The living room of Carl and Vanessa Houston’s apartment at The Orchard Hotel, near Chichester, sometime in the nineties.

CAST

RONNIE SHELDON
CARL HOUSTON
CAPTAIN GODARD
INSPECTOR WESTWOOD
VANESSA HOUSTON
RUTH WYATT
BERNARD DECKER
MILLIE DECKER
OLIVER RADFORD
HARRY SCOTTSDALE
MARGARET MACKENZIE

Basil Conroy
Simon Grier
Malcolm Shaw
John Ellaway
Birgitta Morton
Edwina Scanlon
Marc McMenamin
Carol Fitzsimons
Neale Webb
Robert Lambert
Gwen Priestman

Small Running Title

CREW

DIRECTOR
ASSISTED BY
STAGE MANAGER
STAGE CREW


SOUND & LIGHTING
WARDROBE & PROPS
PROMPT
SET DESIGN
BOX OFFICE
FRONT OF HOUSE

TEAS
PHOTOGRAPHY
WEBSITE & PUBLICITY

Linda Montgomery
Gwen Priestman & Carol Fitzsimons
Ivan Sheppard
David Murphy, Robert Lambert
Harry Sheppard, Simon Grier
Jim McMahon, Colm Smith
Marc Whisker
Hilary Bryan
Sabina Purcell
Patrick Molloy
Ann Rath, Susie Grier, Daphne Kaye
George Windsor-Aubrey
Malcolm Shaw, Ian Crowley
Barbara Walker & helpers
Robert Lambert
Simon Grier

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