Mary Goes First

WEDNESDAY 17 DECEMBER - SATURDAY 31 JANUARY

Directed by Auriol Smith

Designed by Sam Dowson
Lighting by John Harris

Political shenanigans as an election approaches, honours for sale, local councillors and putative MPs changing parties from Conservative to Liberal and back again, and even fear of a minimum wage, all feature in this delightful 1913 comedy.

Mary Whichello, the leader of society in a middle sized manufacturing town, is distinctly put out when her husband's main rival Thomas Bodsworth is knighted for his services to the local community. Drastic measures are required. A dinner party at the home of a young solicitor, anxious to make his way and marry Mary's sister, provides an ideal opportunity, especially when Lady Bodsworth presents such a sitting target. The events of the night disrupt the whole of Warkinstall for months and years to come and even reverberate to Westminster.


Cast: Mia Austen, Penelope Beaumont, Mark Burrell, Timothy Carlton, Claire Carrie, Michael Lumsden, Damien Matthews, Christopher Naylor, Susie Trayling, David Whitworth, James Woolley, Philip York.

Running time: 2 and a half hours.