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Habeas Corpus

October 1978
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
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Description

This is a very popular farce by the great playwright Alan Bennett and the Lane End Players certainly did this fantastic play justice

The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round. Family, friends and the sexual satisfaction of the "corpus" (body) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners. Through a dance of mistaken identities and carnal encounters, one motto holds fast: "He whose lust lasts, lasts longest."

Cast
Arthur Wicksteed - Bernard Rogers
Muriel Wicksteed - Doreen Reading
Dennis Wicksteed - Paul Brown
Constance Wicksteed - Rozalind Clark
Mrs Swabb - Mary Cleare
Canon Throbbing - Ronnie Sellar
Lady Rumpers - Helen Clark
Felicity Rumpers - Sharon Stratford
Mr Shanks - John Cadman
Sir Percy Shorter - Charles Jackson
Mr Purdue - Anthony Hallam

Author

Alan Bennett

Director

Les Reading

Venue

Lane End Village Hall
​Church Road
​Lane End 
​Bucks
​HP14 3JE
​(see map below)

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