Archives - July 1994
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Archives - July 1994 |
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Produced by Cheree Hill
THE PLAY
60s drama, set in Bolton. The Crompton household is a fairly typical one: mother, father, two sons and two daughters, all living at home and working in the local cotton mills. Against a backdrop of national change, father Rafe's traditional values are a stern and alien concept to his children, who want more freedom. Mother Daisy sympathises with them, helping them hide much of what Rafe would disapprove of from him. Meanwhile, she herself struggles to make ends meet with her weekly allowances for the housekeeping never quite balancing up.
It takes a row over a tea-time herring, which youngest daughter Hilda refuses to eat, that threatens to destroy the family entirely. Rafe, with days of wartime hardship and rationing still fresh in memory, will not stand for waste: but Hilda is not prepared to be bullied over it. Brothers Harold and Wilfred take her side and threaten to leave home. Elder sister Florence hastens arrangements for her marriage to fiance Arthur so she, too, can get out. Hilda borrows money from Daisy to leave for London, but Daisy has to pawn Rafe's new coat to get the money. When Rafe finds out, it is the catalyst that sets them all down a path of honesty - and the beginnings of understanding each other properly.
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PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Preview from the Worthing Herald, 8th July 1994
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