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Dock Brief and Black Comedy

In April 1979, Banbury Cross Players presented a Double Bill at College Theatre, Banbury. The plays were Dock Brief by John Mortimer and Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer.

DOCK BRIEF – BY JOHN MORTIMER

CAST

Morgenhall – Tony Neale
Fowle – Bob Clement

The action of the play is in two scenes and passes in a prison cell.
Time – when capital punishment was still the penalty for murder.

INTERVAL 20 MINUTES

BLACK COMEDY – BY PETER SHAFFER

CAST

Brindsley Miller – David Rex
Carol Melkett – Stephanie Burnham
Miss Furnival – Phyl Wherry
Colonel Melkett – Spencer Lester
Harold Gorringe – John Bennett
Clea – Liz Coombes
Schuppanzigh – George Moon
Georg Bamberger – Ron Harper

THE PLAYS DIRECTED BY NEVILLE TURNER

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