Season 33 Play 6 – Hamp by John Wilson
Hamp
23rd – 28th March 1981
Directed by
Roland Coombs
Cast
Private Arthur Hamp – Antony Howley
Corporal of the Guard – Allan Greenwood
Guard Private – lan Wilkinson
Lt. William Hargreaves – Edward Cowan
Lt. Tom Webb – Alan Clarke
President of the Court – John Burgess, John Taylor
Members of the Court – Donald Clough
Capt. Prescott – Chris Matthews
Capt. Midgley Prosecuting Officer – John Cohen
Padre – Michael Millward
Capt. O’Sullivan Medical Officer – John Goldsborough
Orderly Officer – Donald Clough
Corporal of the Guard – Allan Greenwood
Guard Private – lan Wilkinson
Lt. William Hargreaves – Edward Cowan
Lt. Tom Webb – Alan Clarke
President of the Court – John Burgess, John Taylor
Members of the Court – Donald Clough
Capt. Prescott – Chris Matthews
Capt. Midgley Prosecuting Officer – John Cohen
Padre – Michael Millward
Capt. O’Sullivan Medical Officer – John Goldsborough
Orderly Officer – Donald Clough
Synopsis
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Directors Notes
People called it the War to end all Wars. Old men envied the young men marching off to fight at Passchendaele, Arras or the Somme.
Young men wondered why they were there at all and died wondering. It was a War that brought out some of the best as well as some of the worst in human nature.
This evening’s play is about a group of men who, required to implement a law they believed in principle to be necessary and just, experienced its workings in practice as horrifyingly wrong. It is the law which defines the Army’s right to punish desertion by death.
