archive 1958

23 June – 5 July
Tender Trap
by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith

Charlie Reader in Tender Trap has the perfect set up, the ideal that is every man’s dream. A flat in New York, a well paid job and any number of beautiful girls outdoing each other to cater for his needs. What more could a man ask?

Joe McCall, his friend who has a wife, three children all with bands on their teeth and a house with wall to wall carpeting, even in the bathroom, is ensnared in the little woman’s dream world, and he certainly envies Charlie.
Joe thinks he has a cure for the common cold which will bring them both a fortune. However, what is needed more is a cure for love – for both Charlie, who at one point finds himself engaged to two girls at once, and Joe who are ripe to fall and in Charlie’s case there are at least two charmers ready to catch him in their Tender Trap!

Artistic Credits
Director: Peter Coe
Designer: Ken Calder

Cast
Poppy Matson: Marie Devereux
Charlie Reader: Anton Rodgers
Joe McCall: John Gordon
Jessica Collins: Diana Potter
Sylvia Crewes: Gillian Owen
Julie Gillis: Maureen Beck
Earl Lindquist: Gary Watson
Sol Schwartz: Bill Green

Production Photograph

Anton Rodgers and Maureen Beck, Marie Devereux, Gillian Owen, Diana Potter, (in no order)