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Dry Rot

By John Chapman
November 1986

Three dodgy bookies, Alf Tubbe, Flash Harry and Fred Phipps, plan to rig a horse race by kidnapping the fancied horse and its French jockey. They stay at a country house hotel near the racecourse, run by Colonel and Mrs Wagstaff, where they conceal the horse Sweet Lavender (and later the jockey) in a hidden cellar.


ACT I

Scene 1. The lounge at the "Bull & Cow" - morning


ACT II

Scene 1. Three days later

Scene 2. The early hours of the following morning


ACT III

Scene 1. Eight hours later

Scene 2. That afteroon


CAST

COLONEL WAGSTAFF
MRS WAGSTAFF
BETH BARTON
SUSAN WAGSTAFF
JOHN DANBY
FRED PHIPPS
ALFRED TUBBE
FLASH HARRY
ALBERT POLIGNAC
SERGEANT FIRE

David Ferguson
Ida Dann
Gwen Barrett
Jean Gormley
Andrew Wilkie
Neale Webb
Geoff Lovegrove
Jim Lovegrove
Martin Cuppage
Barbara Kirk

Small Running Title

CREW

DIRECTOR
STAGE MANAGER
PROPS
PUBLICITY
BUSINESS MANAGER
FRONT OF HOUSE
PROMPT

Dick White
Brian Crawford
Lynn Wiley
Linda Montgomery
Betty Young
Betty Young
Louise Wilkie

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