Cast

Synopsis

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Directors Notes

TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS IN LABOUR … and in a heatwave too.

On Monday the ninth of August 1976, l, a mere male, went into labour. Twenty-eight days later, Children arrived. Almost painlessly. | suppose I must be one of the few men to have produced children. The London production, at the Mermaid Theatre, in April 1974, was by Alan Strachan. I’ve never met Mr. Strachan, but I would like to, if only to find out if he felt the same exhilaration I did on being asked to produce and deliver exactly on time-in my case, 7.30 p.m. on Monday, September 6th, with five action replays.

It is a good play.

I say this without any doubt whatsoever. It is a good play. | have been given a good cast: a good designer and setting and a good back-stage, effects and lighting team. If it doesn’t come over to you as a good play it is because I have got it wrong somewhere along the line. The cast and everybody else involved have worked extremely hard, whilst many of you were holidaying. They have done all I have asked of them and, what’s more, done it well.

I’m not going to tell you about the play itself. Suffice to say it has a beginning–at 7 a.m., a middle in the afternoon, and an ending_in moonlight. It has humour, happiness, sadness, and some abrasiveness. It is a play about people, real people not caricatures. For your sakes and your entertainment, I hope the play is a success. I’ve already had my reward–the pleasure and excitement of bringing the play to you. Judge it for yourself.

Ladies and Gentlemen, my case–or should it be little black bag–rests.