‘AND WHAT NEXT’
Other than the very brief mention of this play in the final line of Guardian’s Report of the School Speech Day, there is no further information about the actual cast; nor indeed what was part was actually performed from this 4 Act play that J M Barrie wrote before his most famous work – that of Peter Pan!
What is known is that ‘Quality Street’ tells the story of two sisters who start a school “for genteel children” and that the character list was, as set out below:
- Valentine Brown – Suitor of Miss Phoebe
- Miss Phoebe Throssel – A School Mistress
- Miss Livvy – Alter ego of Phoebe
- Ensign Blades – A Young Officer
- Lieutenant Spicer – A Young Officer
- Susan Throssel – Sister to Phoebe
- Patty – Maid-of-all-work in service of the Throssel sisters
- Recruiting Sergeant
- A Waterloo Veteran
- Arthur Wellesley Tomson
- Miss Willoughby
- Miss Fanny Willoughby
- Miss Henrietta Turnbull
- Miss Charlotte Parratt
- Isabella
- Harriett