‘Anybody For Tennis’ was first performed at the ‘Comet Theatre Club’ in the Little Theatre, Monck Street, London. As it seems to appear from the original cast list noted in the script, the author – Jack last – played the part of Henry!
The play is set in the Pavilion of the Rushton Vale Lawn Tennis Club
Cast
- Henry – A visitor – Richard Dunn
- Henrietta – A visitor – Anne Hayden
- Diana Morris – The Club’s most glamorous member – Gill Oliver
- Phyllis Trumper – The Ladies Captain – Daphne Carroll
- Robert Farmer – The newest member – Bob Jackson
- Reggie Blake – A keen member – Alec Malyon
- Dudley Baker – A keen member – Peter Lee
- Jane Trumper – The Ladies Champion
- Peter De Vries – The Owner – Peter Boulton
- Molly De Vries – His wife – June Allitt
- Detective Chief Inspector Percival – John Cade
Stage & House Management, Sets, Lighting & Properties
- Bill Chapman, Gordon Aylott, John Taylor & Margaret Lee
Produced By Cyril Malyon
Rear: Bob Jackson, Alec Malyon, John Cade, Peter Lee, Peter Boulton, June Allitt, Dick Dunn, Front: Hilary Malyon. Gill Langridgge, Ann Hayden, Daphne Carroll
Script published by the former H.E.W. Deane
Guardian Newspaper ‘Pre Show notice’ – Any Body for Tennis – March 1972