Shifting Sands
May 2004
Written by Steve Melia.
Directed by Kate Stubbs.
Produced by Cathie Pannell.
About This Production
Author's note
On the South Devon Coast path between Slapton Sands & Start Point lie the ruins of Old Hallsands. The story of its collapse has been told many times: an unfortunate accident, an act of folly, or so I believed until I found a long-concealed Government document in the Public Records Office in Kew. My research eventually led me to write Hallsands: a Village Betrayed, published in 2002.
Shifting Sands is a fictional story spun around those real events. Tom and Edith are entirely fictional. George Wills, Mrs. Spital, Hansford Worth, Jim Trout and Mr Brooks are real people. The Inspector, the Official and Munro are amalgams of real people. When Munro and the Official speak from their desks they are using the actual words of journalists and officials at the time.
Backstage gossip
The poster for this production inadvertently caused a bit of a stir: perhaps the difference between the letters 'f' and 't' in the title would have been clearer in a different font.
Cast
- David Munro
- Barry Cummings
- Richard Hansford-Worth
- Mike Roberts
- Jim Trout
- Alan Prince
- Mrs Spital
- Margaret Cuthbertson
- George Wills
- Paul Wonnacott
- Tom Wills
- Robin Willoughby
- Edith Wills
- Debbie Plummer
- Official
- Anthony Hope-Johnson
- Mr Brooks
- Michael Murphy
- Inspector
- Robin Lee
Production Team
- Stage Manager
- Val Meek
- Scenery
- John Wakeham
- Properties
- Felicity Ferry, Katy Longley
- Lighting
- Elfyn Thomas
- Sound
- Tony Simister
- Technical Support
- Ray Burgess, John Meek
- Composer
- Steve Dow
- Violin
- Caroline Cleave
- Flute
- Clare Devenport
- Guitar and Piano
- Steve Dow
- Costumes
- Linda Chadburn
- Make-up
- Alison Dahill, Jenny Hazell (as Jenny Hazel), Lindsey Wickham
- Hair
- Dot Oatway
- Prompt
- Val Stanley
- Stage Crew
- Kirsty Stewart
- Photographer
- Keith Male
- Poster
- Steve Melia
- Publicity
- Guy Pannell
- Publicity Banners
- Graham Davies
- Front of House
- Ron Akehurst, Sue Burgess and team
Programme
Gallery
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- The cast pictured at the remains of Hallsands. (Shifting Sands, SBADS 2004)
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- Edith Wills (Debbie Plummer), Jim Trout (Alan Prince) and George Wills (Paul Wonnacott). (Shifting Sands, SBADS 2004)
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- George Wills (Paul Wonnacott) and Edith Wills (Debbie Plummer). (Shifting Sands, SBADS 2004)
