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A Visit from Miss Prothero/Green Forms - T02065278230 Corporate Sponsor Pall Europe Limited. Director Edward Kemp. Design Simon Higlett. Lighting Mark Jonathan. Performer Patricia Routledge. Performer Edward Petherbridge. Performer Janet Dale. Performer Carole Street. Performer David Bannerman.
18 Jun 07 to 23 Jun 07	Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L1930130444
11 Jun 07 to 16 Jun 07	Theatre Royal, Glasgow :: V623 listing details L01037853161
4 Jun 07 to 9 Jun 07	The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L230791469
28 May 07 to 2 Jun 07	Richmond Theatre, Outer London :: V327 listing details L1472105006
21 May 07 to 26 May 07	Theatre Royal, Plymouth :: V895 listing details L1123988481
14 May 07 to 19 May 07	Theatre Royal, Bath :: V854 listing details L1388184576
12 Apr 07 to 12 May 07	Minerva Theatre, Chichester :: V1310317653 listing details L0373605620
T01882465946 (TRBATH03) In the first of these brilliant one-act plays, A Visit From Miss Prothero, Arthur Dodsworth is pottering around at home, enjoying some time to himself. Now retired after thirty years at Warburton's he had thought he'd moved on to new worlds; pottery classes, bowling and looking after the budgie. But when Miss Prothero calls in unexpectedly to fill him in on what has happened to the old firm in his absence, he can hardly believe what he is hearing. In Green Forms Doris and Doreen face a dilemma. Surely the green form is not intended for Precepts and Invoices? It looks as if the dreaded influence of Newport Pagnell may be about to intrude on their cushy working day where the major concern until now has been whether or not it is Personnel who have pinched their washbasin plug!Producer Theatre Royal Bath Productions. Director Lawrence Till. Design Richard Foxton. Lighting Nick Beadle. Performer Lesley Joseph. Performer Edward Hardwicke.
28 Jul 03 to 2 Aug 03	Theatre Royal, Brighton :: V657 listing details L01070123732
22 Jul 03 to 26 Jul 03	Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V570 listing details L217692997
14 Jul 03 to 19 Jul 03	Richmond Theatre, Outer London :: V327 listing details L307123758
7 Jul 03 to 12 Jul 03	New Theatre, Cardiff :: V823 listing details L1642168654
30 Jun 03 to 5 Jul 03	Churchill Theatre, Bromley :: V302 listing details L255402021
31 Mar 03 to 5 Apr 03	Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham :: V90 listing details L0126558605
24 Mar 03 to 29 Mar 03	Arts Theatre, Cambridge :: V19 listing details L01593113603
10 Mar 03 to 15 Mar 03	Civic Theatre, Chelmsford :: V32 listing details L0991020749
3 Mar 03 to 8 Mar 03	Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon :: V135 listing details L0836657109
24 Feb 03 to 1 Mar 03	Belgrade Theatre, Coventry :: V153 listing details L02136639241
17 Feb 03 to 22 Feb 03	Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford :: V702 listing details L21077579
11 Feb 03 to 15 Feb 03	Theatre Royal, Bath :: V854 listing details L0106087655
T01180036832 (NW99) Performer Brigit Forsyth. Performer Lorna Laidlaw. Performer Martin Milman. Director Gwenda Hughes. Design Matthew Wright. Lighting Jo Dawson. Sound James Earls-Davis.
27 May 99 to 19 Jun 99	New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L306443987
T445863557 (OS98) Director Deborah Shaw. Design Sue Plummer. Lighting Andrew Blacklock. Sound Helen Jackson. Performer Marji Campi. Performer Susan Tordoff. Performer Randal Herley.
6 Feb 98 to 28 Feb 98	Forum Studio Theatre (formerly the Chester Gateway), Chester :: V468 listing details L955199463
T0542932177 (OS96) Director Jennie Darnell. Design Will Hargreaves. Lighting Jason Taylor. Performer Susan Wooldridge. Performer Paola Dionisotti. Performer Timothy Bateson.
19 Sep 96 to 19 Oct 96	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds :: V977 listing details L717462379

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Play :: A suite of playlets including "A Visit From Miss Prothero" and "Green Forms", much in the same style as his Talking Heads plays.A Visit from Miss Prothero - Widowed and retired from Warburtons, where he was a mainstay of management systems, Mr Dodsworth is content to potter, chat to Millie, his budgie, and branch out into evening classes in cordon bleu cookery. An unexpected visit from his one time colleague MIss Prothero, determined to fill him in on what's been happening in the old firm - and she doesn't just mean Maureen's baby - shake his world. Yes, the winds of change are blowing through Warburtons. Green Forms - Colleagues Doreen and Doris are comfortably installed in an obscure department in a large corporation, passing time with talk of artificial hips and rubber plants, punctuated with occasional filing and form filling, when a shadow falls over their settled lives - the shadow of Dorothy Binns from Newport Pagnell and the trail of change she leaves in her corporate wake.

Author

Alan Bennett