Table D'hote by Sydney Biggs 23 April to 28-30th April 1976


Cast: Helen Knox, Jaquelin Jones, Paul Nicholson
Director:

The Author: Sydney Biggs, the author, wrote as George Scott because he ownedthe  Scott Street George Florist that was sited in the St George Hotel building on Willis Street. He subsequently moved his business to the Regent Centre in Manners St where he was joined by John Gilberthorpe. The Regent Centre was recently demolished, rebuilt and reincarnated as a joint venture cooking school between Le Cordon Bleu and Weltec with Dick Smith's below it.

SM /Technicians: Props Jane  Persse
Theme: Probably brave at the time - a play about homosexuals.  BATS opening production, one of three plays presented in the -

Venue:  Ewen Hall (YMCA) Willis Street, Wellington. Seated up to 600. Later played in Levin in association with Otaki Players.

Stories:  The local vicar, who of course, hadn't seen the plays, wrote a letter to the local newspaper condemning homosexuals, drunks, and 'nonsense' plays.

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