archive 1957

2 – 14 September
An English Summer
by Ronald Adam

Ronald Adam was himself a controller in the operations room at the RAF Station Hornchurch. This is the setting for his play, the time is the summer of 1940, and the story concerns the “few”.

But for the efforts of this handful of young men the history of the world would have been changed, and it is well for us to remember today the immortal words of Winston Churchill: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”.

This play catches most remarkably the spirit of this man and the atmosphere of that summer.

Artistic Credits
Producer: James Grout
Production and Lighting Supervisor: Nancy Poultney
Set Designer: Jean Love
Other Personnel: from RAF Station, Hornchurch

Cast
S/Ldr. Henry Armstrong: Bernard Warwick
F/Lt. Smithers: David Chivers
Capt. Forshaw RA: John Flint
S/Ldr. Cook: John Hoskin
G/Capt Garry, OBE, DFC: Richard Butler
S/Ldr. David Kemble: James Grout
A W.A.A.F: Nora McKelvie
F/Lt “Dutch” Peters D.F.C: Gary Watson
Pilot-Officer Willie Wishart: Gary Hope
Flying-Officer George Mayhew: Anthony Rea
L.A.C. Brightside: Hugh Mathias
Flight-Sergeant John Nabb, D.F.M: Geoffrey Russell
Sergeant “Ace” Corner: Michael Wynne