1985 Lock Up Your Daughters


April 1985 - Lock Up Your Daughters a Musical Play adapted by Bernard Miles from Henry Fielding's Comedy, Rape upon Rape Music by Laurie Johnson - Lyrics by Lionel Bart Directed by Jane Levan
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	Staff, a constable Watchmen Squeezum Quill Mrs Squeezum Sotmore Ramble Mrs Brazencourt A Wench Politic Hilaret Cloris Dabble Faithful Worthy Captain Constant Piano Violin Cello Backstage: Stage Manager Lighting Props Costume Design Business Manager Front of House Bar	Cliff Taynton Shane Evans Michael Cunningham Kevin Hillier Colin Chivers Nicholas Sharpe Barbara Lloyd Robert Sanday Aidan Woods Angela McDermott Lesley Keetley Peter Lawry Karen Duff Maureen Chapman Colin Pontin Pat Stimson John Naish Peter Butterworth Anne Davies Marilyn Wright John Percy Steve Birch Ray Bulmer Tim Jones Simon Whittard Penny Percy Pat Stimson Ann Aplin Howard Aplin Margaret Thomson Jane Endicott	The action of the play takes place in England in the early eighteenth century. Henry Fielding is best known for his novel Tom Jones, but he was a prolific writer, and Rape Upon Rape, upon which Lock Up Your Daughters is based, was written when he was 23. As a direct result of two of his other plays, which were political satires, a Bill was passed in 1736 which prohibited the production of any play which had not been sanctioned by the Lord Chamberlain. Costume Design by Pat Stimson.....