Cast

Synopsis

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Directors Notes

The Private Ear and The Public Eye rolls trippingly off the tongue, but we shall in fact present The Public Eye and The Private Ear. There is no deep-seated psychological reason for this; it is just that one set fits inside the other, so that is the play we do first.

The plays were originally intended to be performed by the same cast but it is axiomatic that in the amateur theatre there are never enough parts for women and when two such parts come along it is advisable to have two people to play them. There are always enough parts for men, (aspirants to the male acting list, welcome) therefore these parts can with advantage and economy_-be doubled.

I remember reading a programme note which laid it down that the play we were about to see was about cannibalism. Not till the curtain fell did I realize that the writer had been speaking metaphorically and I worried for the next hour about what I must have missed. Lest I expose anybody to like torment I shall forbear from dogmatic assertion and merely express the fervent hope that when Gordon Doble rises from his couch of anguish whither his anxious friends will have borne the news of our production, he may find it in his heart or at least somewhere around his fifth cervical vertebra to forgive us.