Ten Times Table

Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 24th - 26th November 2005

"The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, "The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve".  Committee chair and local businessman Ray Dixon thinks the massacre will make a fine centerpiece for a "folk festival" to bring visitors and business to town. 

On the committee, however, is a young left-wing school-teacher who decides to turn the project into a rally for proletarian revolution. Committee meetings become symbolic battlefields for conflicting views - the right wing faction being led by the Chairman's conservative wife. 

The event itself turns into a violent confrontation between the two extremes, with cataclysmic results. 

Police intervention brings matters to a relatively quiet conclusion, but already another pageant - Romans Vs Britons - seems an attractive possibility."

Directed by Jane Westermann and produced by Claire Burroughs.  The cast were:

Ray         Peter Mason

Donald     Chris Hawson

Helen       Sue Thoroughgood

Eric         John Cottingham

Sophie     Claire Burroughs

Audrey     Angela Crompton

Phillippa   Sue Matthews

Tim          Nick Thoroughgood

Max         Tim Manasseh