Ripon Rowel Players

Ladies Who Lunch
by Tudor Gates

Comedy. M3 (middle-age, 50s) F7 (21, 30s, 40s, middle-age), with doubling. 1 male voice. A drawing room, a duplex apartment, an apartment. The time is the presnt. It is late Autumn in London & New York, early summer in Sydney.

In Ladies Who Lunch, commissioned for the BT Biennial 1998, Amelia, Rachel and Joanne, wives of three of the world's richest men, meet regularly to do charity work. In order to increase the charity's turnover Amelia thinks up a scheme to play the stock market exploiting the information gained secretly from their spouses business dealings. When the husbands find out, the resulting showdown is not the walk-over they think it will be...

Production Details

Location: Ripon Leisure Centre
Dates: 1st-3rd June 2000

Sir John Sasson: Malcolm Clegg
Lady Amelia Sasson: Jackie Wiglesworth
Gerry (Geraldine) Sasson: Claire Westmoreland
Harry Milchan: Barry Gwilt
Rachel Milchan: Jane Waterworth
Ms. D. L. Wallis: Julie Prescott
Ken Stocks: Nigel Simpson
Jane Stocks: Linda Butler-Blades

Producer: Anne Simpson
Stage Manager: Jim Halliwell
Sound & Lighting: Anne Simpson
Props: Cynthia Adams & Claire Westmoreland
Prompt: Norma Hill
Front-of-House Manager: Viv Schornagel

Publicity Photos

The ladies plot
(Linda Butler-Blades, Julie Prescott,
Jackie Wiglesworth & Jane Waterworth)
Financial Worries
(Barry Gwilt & Jane Waterworth)
Domestic Bliss
(Linda Butler-Blades & Nigel Simpson)
Poster
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