11th - 15th October 2016
The Exeter Barnfield Theatre
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Introducing our principal cast
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The Colonel’s ‘right hand man’ - engaged to Saphir and attempting to emulate his commanding officer
The ‘Career Guard’ devoted to the Regiment, and of course to his fiancée - The Lady Angela
A titled gentleman in search of the new experiences joining the Guards will bring
Colonel Calverley
Gareth Davies
Major Mergatroyd
Pete Francis
Lt. the Duke of Dunstable
Mark Hurford
An ‘idyllic’ poet who has returned to the village of his childhood where once Patience was his playmate.
A ‘fleshly’ poet, beloved by all the ladies in the village and in love
with Patience.
But is he
all he seems?
Bunthorne’s dour legal advisor - but has he fallen for one
of the ladies?
Reginald Bunthorne
Tim Hunt
Archibald Grosvenor
Adrian Fox
Mr Bunthorne’s Solicitor
Stephen Tregale
The maiden who has forsaken the Major but who occasionally allows her mind to wander into new possibilities and experiences
Something of the matriarch of the maidens who has deserted the Colonel in order to admire Bunthorne
Intense and dramatic in her devotion to the aesthetic cause whose attention can’t be turned elsewhere ….or can it?
The Lady Angela
Toni Bishop
The Lady Saphir
Emma Mills
The Lady Ella
Sheena Galpin
The most stately of
the maidens of the village, absolutely devoted to her
Mr Bunthorne,
but will her
devotion last?
The village dairymaid who has never been in love - although she had a playfellow once whom she still remembers.
The Lady Jane
Carolyn Harries
Patience
Nicola Wilkes