FROM THE BARN THEATRE ARCHIVE

Forty Years On

by Alan Bennett
Directed by David Shaw
29th November – 6th December 1975

Mr. Franklin, a ‘progressive’ schoolmaster, is for the first time producing the traditional school play at Albion House, a public school for boys. He has chosen as his theme ‘potted’ history from the period of World War I. It is the last day of term and also the day of the Headmaster’s retirement. The comedy arises from the nature of Franklin’s historical views and the conflict between him and the Headmaster.

‘A wry, irreverent and often wildly hilarious kind of Cavalcade in reverse.’

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by
David Shaw

CAST

Headmaster
Franklin
Tempest
Miss Nisbitt
Head Boy
Cartwright
Wigglesworth
Charteris
Skinner
Tredgold
Dishforth
Rumbold
Wimpenny

CREATIVE TEAM

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