Cast — Programme — video — photos from the 2007 performance — video of the 1997 performance
In this 2022 performance we added music, with some tunes adapted to fit poems from Flora's first published work 'Bog-Myrtle and Peat'
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The Poster (the perfomance at Liss was eventually cancelled due to poor ticket sales) |
Photos by Angus McKay
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The cast outside Headley Village Hall |
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Canadian Sgt John Mumford bumps into 'Louie' Woods with her ancient bicycle, in Liphook during the First World War in 1916 |
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Young Joe Leggett buys a pennyworth of gobstoppers from John Thompson |
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Flora and John Thompson |
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Flora with 'Louie' Woods, reading her poetry |
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John Thompson and Harry Envis return from a fishing trip to Forest Mere |
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Dr Ronald Campbell Macfie pays a surprise visit to Flora – but John Thompson is about to interrupt them! |
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Flora gets 'Louie' Woods ready for inspection before she starts her round |
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Bill Tidy inspects a Mills Bomb which Maggie has just found on Bramshott Common – Sgt Mumford suggests they hand it over, and gently! |
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Flora meets the Gypsy who tells her fortune |
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Mrs Parkhurst (Flora's old landlady in Grayshott) visiting with her daughter Elsie – Elsie was a late-comer, born while Flora was there, and Flora has just discovered that she too is unexpectedly pregnant again |
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Maggie and Bill Tidy meet Flora and help her identify a plant she's found: "tis hawkweed as you can see" (actually, it wasn't) |
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Joe Leggett withdraws 2 shillings from his savings account at the post office – John Thompson makes sure he fills the form out correctly! |
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Capt Byfield visits the Post Office and chats to John |
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Mrs Leggett and her son Joe who run a farm in Griggs Green, talking about the Thompsons, who have just moved into Woolmer Gate next door to them |
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Flora meets Sam the shepherd and his imaginary flock of sheep on Weavers Down (her Peverel Down) |
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Diana Thompson and Eileen Leggett operating the Liphook telephone exchange in 1927 |
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Bill and Maggie Tidy have just accidentally burnt there 'house' down – so she is not best pleased! |
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The Chairman of Cable & Wireless on the occasion of Richard Brownlow's retirement (we never get to see Flora's old boyfriend Richard in this play) |
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We jump forward nearly 10 years: Flora sees a report in a magazine showing her old boyfriend from Grayshott days retiring from business – she wonders what has happened to him in his life [In this presentation we had Diana showing her the magazine – in the original script it was Peter, by now an engineer, who showed it to her – but we couldn't find a Peter!] |
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John Thompson's epilogue following Flora's death in May 1947 ... |
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... and the band played on |
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Scene 1 |
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Scene 2 |
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Scene 5 |
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Scene 6 |
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Scene 7 |
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Scene 8 |
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Scene 9 |
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Scene 10 |
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Scene 11 |
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Scene 13 ('Smell? What smell?') |
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Scene 14 |
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Scene 17 |
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Scene 18 |
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Scene 19 (with the director reading in the part of an 8-year-old boy! |
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Scene 22 |
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Scene 25 |
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Scene 32 (with the director reading in the part of an 8-year-old boy!) |
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Scene 33 |
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Scene 34 |
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Walkdown at Headley (from the video) |
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'Flora' outside Flora's house in Liphook |
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'Transport of delight' |
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'The Banned' at The Phoenix |
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A break between performances in Headley |