Caught Napping [extract]

Summary: 1959 BBC presentation of an extract from Geoffrey Lumsden’s farce Caught Napping, from the Piccadilly Theatre, London.
Theatre play: Caught Napping by Geoffrey Lumsden [more information]
Play synopsis: A farce ‘set in a boys’ school at the beginning of the Easter holidays, when all the pupils should have departed for the vacation. But one remains behind surreptitiously for the sake of a racehorse called Gwendoline, and in no time at all his housemaster’s home is brought to a state of upheaval, made even more complicated by the fact that an effigy of the headmaster has been found in the square, seated in a bath subsequently discovered missing from a bathroom in Mr Potts’ house’ (source: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/lumsden-geoffrey.html).
Production history: First staged at the Salisbury Playhouse in October 1958, under the title Gwendoline.
Date of transmission: Tuesday 11 August 1959
Time: 8.00-8.40pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Director

Anthony Sharp

Television Presentation by

Alan Chivers

Playwright

Geoffrey Lumsden

Sets / Settings

Michael Trangmar

Cast

Graham Armitage	Henry
George Benson	Weillington Potts
Gay Cameron	Jill Potts
Raymond Huntley	Dr Rodd
Margot Lister	Matron
Basil Lord	Archie D’Arcy
Geoffrey Lumsden	Maj. Gen. Sir Charles Francis-Francis Carmichael
Bridget McConnel	Mabel
Nan Munro	Lady Carmichael
Leslie Randall	Gordon Wilding
Winifred Shotter	Gertrude Potts
Derek Smee	Laker-Hopp
Timothy West	Talky

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