A recent find in the Walthamstow Guardian Newspaper archives reveals that this One Act Play was the Drama Club’s entry in the 1962 Essex Drama Festival held at The Sir George Monoux Grammar School – where it did not, alas, win the Trophy!
The action of Conrad Carter’s – ‘Breathes There A Man’ – takes place in the ‘extremely neatly furnished’ living room of the Medway’s Council House in the village of Shawburn. The time is the early evening
The Script notes (1955) confirm that this particular play is the successor to the authors’ earlier – ‘One Crowded Hour’ – ‘the comedy that has been performed by every kind of drama group’ – but that it is ‘definitely not a sequel’ – ‘but the same lovable characters are back – as funny and as intensely human as ever’
March 1962 Guardian Report. Walthamstow Youth Drama Festival. ‘Breathes There A Man’
Cast
- Sam Medway – Alec Malyon
- Horace Oaks – John Cade
- Clara Medway – Sam’s wife – Julie White
- Miss Tickner
- Mrs Porritt
- Mrs Carnaby
- Miss Judd – Susan Riches
Breathes There A Man. Script. Originally published by Hugh Quekett Limited