Gwynn Versus Gwynne
by Eleanor Reynolds 1935
Produced by Miss M H Ridsdale Stage manager Ernest Hawley
Lighting and effects
John Burns
“An enjoyable production”
“There are about 20 players in the cast....they gave a good
performance..which abounds in pathos and comedy”
“The company paid for their own expenses from Barnsley” This
was a performance given in the Haigh Village Institute in aid of the reduction
of debt on the Low Swithen Methodist Sunday School.
The above reviews come from the performance at Haigh.
There are no dates to say which performance came first. The
performance at Haigh was a Tuesday evening . The details below are
apparently from a run at Farrar Street
which began on a Tuesday evening also. My guess is that the Haigh performance
followed the Farrar Street one.
In which case the role of Richard Gwynne was picked up again
by Charles I Moss. He is reported playing
the part in a Tuesday performance, but from the two reports, there is no
evidence of if the first night was at Haigh or Farrar Street.
After the first night ( a Tuesday) , shortly before the
second performance (which was on Thursday),
Charles I Moss, playing Richard Gwynne , was ‘overcome by serious
illness’. Minutes before the opening, Colin Thompson stepped into the
breach. He was a local amateur actor and
in the circumstances obliged to read the part. He made great efforts to ‘ensure
the continuity of the play remaining unbroken’.
“The production was bright and breezy throughout...well in
keeping with the Farrar Street tradition.’
Other plays produced by the Players
by the seemingly prolific Eleanor Reynolds, fast becoming a Players tradition, are
The Sealed Envelope ‘Packed
audiences enjoy The Sealed Envelope’
The Chinese Riddle ‘Barnsley
Church production
Pearls in Pawn ‘Farrar
Street Players comedy’
Mint Sauce Farrer Street
comedy production’
Intrigue at Harmony Court ‘Farrar Street Players
successful show’
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