by ANTHONY MARRIOTT and ALISTAIR FOOT

Produced by MADELEINE GAIR

Assisted by MARION NEWLANDS

Performed in April/May 1999

Bernard Lockwood is a wealthy but coarse-natured builder who has been trying for years to sell his ultra-modern house.

In order to impress his VIP clients Sir Lindsay and Lady Cooper one foggy night, Lockwood coerces his Sales Manager, Nigel Pitt, to pose as the owner and hires an actress, Melanie Sinclair, to play his wife.

Unfortunately, Melanie's fiancé, the extremely wet David Prosser, arrives in hot pursuit, followed by the middle aged Greys whose car has broken down.

As the fog closes in everyone is forced to stay the night—and that is when the shenanigans really start!

Uproar in the House is a good old-fashioned, bedroom-swapping,  frantically funny farce.  It was selected as the first joint production between the Valley Players and Whitley Bay Theatre Club and was successfully staged for three nights at the Community Centre in April 1999 and then for two nights the following week at the beginning of May at The Playhouse in Whitley Bay.

The challenge for both societies was to devise a set that would be easy to construct, dismantle and transport between both venues.  The pictures below show the finished set in Seaton Delaval and Whitley Bay (please click on them to enlarge.)  Note the extra flats at the back at The Playhouse to take advantage of the larger stage area.

Stage Managers DAVE HINDMARSH and PAM MILLER

Set Design RALPH MAUGHAN ▪ Lighting SCOTT SOMMERVILLE

Lighting, Design and Special Effects IAN WOODLEY

Sound WES WRIGHT ▪ Prompt HEATHER MILLS

House Manager JUNE WOODLEY

Photographs THEO KOERNER

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